Systems Configuration Specialist

weServed; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP & health checks

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Reservists leave

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock invites applications for a Systems Configuration Specialist. The role supports enterprise endpoint management and infrastructure monitoring, with hybrid UK work arrangements and a 37.5 hour week.

You will operate, secure and improve Microsoft platforms, drive changes through change management, and apply patches while providing clear technical guidance to teams. Security clearance (BPSS and SC) is required; diverse backgrounds are welcomed.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience supporting a large Microsoft infrastructure.
• Administration experience in Microsoft Intune, SCOM or SCCM.
• Strong troubleshooting across Windows client and server operating systems, applications, networking and identity dependencies.
• Experience of PowerShell or another scripting language.
• Experience working within incident, problem, change and service management processes, including SLAs and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and improve one or more Microsoft systems management platforms: Intune, SCOM and Configuration Manager.
• Monitor service health, investigate faults and performance issues, and drive incidents through to resolution.
• Plan, test and implement platform, policy, management pack, application, update and configuration changes through the change management process.
• Facilitate and execute approved vulnerability patches and software updates across the estate.
• Deploy system changes through established change management processes.

Skills

Microsoft Intune

SCOM

Configuration Manager (SCCM)

PowerShell

Incident & Change Management

Job description

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

We are looking for a versatile Systems Configuration Specialist to help operate, improve and secure our enterprise endpoint management and infrastructure monitoring services. The role can suit an experienced specialist in Microsoft Intune, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) or Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM), with the interest and ability to develop across the wider technology set.

You will work across operational support, service improvement, automation, compliance and technical change. You will help ensure that devices and infrastructure are securely configured, effectively monitored, patched and supported, while providing clear technical insight to operational, security and project teams.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Operate, maintain and improve one or more of the organisation’s Microsoft systems management platforms: Intune, SCOM and Configuration Manager.
• Monitor service health, investigate faults and performance issues, and drive incidents through to resolution.
• Plan, test and implement platform, policy, management pack, application, update and configuration changes through the change management process.
• Facilitate and executing approved vulnerability patches and software updates across the estate.
• Deploy system changes through established change management processes.

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

• Substantial hands‑on experience supporting a large, complex Microsoft infrastructure or endpoint estate.
• Demonstrable administration experience in at least one of Microsoft Intune, SCOM or Configuration Manager.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows client and server operating systems, applications, networking and identity dependencies.
• Experience of PowerShell or another relevant scripting language for administration, automation or monitoring.
• Experience working within incident, problem, change and service management processes, including delivery against SLAs and KPIs.

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

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 [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: 29/10/2026