Cyber Security Lead

weServed; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists paid leave

Holiday Trading and Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Cyber Security Lead to safeguard digital systems supporting key defence infrastructure at the Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth. You will lead secure-by-design delivery, ensuring compliance with MOD cyber security and risk assurance requirements.

In this role, you will shape security architecture, influence programme delivery, and embed security across the lifecycle while collaborating with engineers, architects, and delivery teams. A SC clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering secure by design or cyber security assurance activities.
• Experience working within defence, government, or highly regulated environments.
• In-depth knowledge of cyber security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and ISO 27005.
• Proven ability to conduct threat modelling and risk assessments.
• Experience influencing multidisciplinary teams including engineering and DevOps functions.

Responsibilities

• Leading secure by design assurance activities across complex programmes.
• Conducting threat modelling and cyber risk assessments using recognised frameworks.
• Developing risk treatment plans and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Producing technical security evidence including risk assessments and vulnerability analysis.
• Supporting programme teams, architects, and engineers to embed cyber security best practice.

Skills

Secure by design

Threat modelling

Risk assessments

Cyber security frameworks

Defence/government environment

Team collaboration

Education

CISSP/CISM certification

Job description

Job Title: Cyber Security Lead

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £57,300 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73469

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cyber Security Lead at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Cyber Security Lead, you’ll play a critical role in protecting digital systems that support some of the UK’s most important defence infrastructure programmes. Working across major infrastructure projects within the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, you’ll lead the delivery of secure-by-design solutions, ensuring systems meet strict Ministry of Defence cyber security and risk assurance requirements.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to operate at the forefront of cyber security in defence, shaping security architecture, influencing programme delivery, and protecting essential national capabilities. You’ll collaborate with engineers, architects, and delivery teams, helping to embed security into every stage of the lifecycle while advancing your own career in a highly complex and rewarding environment.

• Leading secure by design assurance activities across complex programmes
• Conducting threat modelling and cyber risk assessments using recognised frameworks
• Developing risk treatment plans and implementing mitigation strategies
• Producing technical security evidence including risk assessments and vulnerability analysis
• Supporting programme teams, architects, and engineers to embed cyber security best practice

This role is full time, standard 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Cyber Security Lead

• Strong experience delivering secure by design or cyber security assurance activities
• Experience working within defence, government, or highly regulated environments
• In-depth knowledge of cyber security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and ISO 27005
• Proven ability to conduct threat modelling and risk assessments
• Experience influencing multidisciplinary teams including engineering and DevOps functions

Qualifications for the Cyber Security Lead

• Relevant professional experience in cyber security, information security, or risk assurance
• Professional certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager, or equivalent are desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 25/08/2026