Systems Configuration Specialist

Job Title:                     Systems Configuration Specialist

Location:                     Hybrid, UK

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72636

Help strengthen the security of a complex technology environment that supports critical operations

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a System Configuration Specialist at any of our main UK locations.

The role

As a System Configuration Specialist, you'll play a vital role in maintaining the security, stability and compliance of Babcock’s IT estate. Working within a specialist team, you'll help protect thousands of users and systems by ensuring vulnerabilities are addressed, security standards are maintained, and critical updates are deployed effectively.

This is an exciting opportunity to apply and further develop your expertise in systems management, vulnerability remediation, operating system deployment and security compliance within a large-scale enterprise environment. Your work will directly contribute to keeping vital services secure and resilient, supporting the important work we do across defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Work closely with Security Operations Centre and Information Assurance teams to maintain a secure operating environment.
• Facilitate and executing approved vulnerability patches and software updates across the estate.
• Deploy system changes through established change management processes.
• Monitor and maintaining Microsoft patch compliance and anti-malware services across client and server environments.
• Manage configuration baselines and supporting enterprise systems management activities using Microsoft tooling.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Systems Configuration Specialist

• Demonstrable experience in vulnerability management and patch management.
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills and experience supporting Microsoft Configuration Manager environments.
• Experience managing operating system deployment, application deployment, patching and endpoint security across server and client platforms.
• Experience working within a large-scale enterprise environment supporting significant endpoint estates.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft operating systems, support tools and group policy management.

Qualifications for the Systems Configuration Specialist

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

B****abcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 29/10/2026