Product Security Engineer – Information Assurance

Salary: £30,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Ability to interpret and implement security standards and frameworks such as the ISO/IEC 27000 series or NIST SP 800 series
• Experience in information assurance, security engineering, cyber security, or a similar field
• Strong understanding of security risk management and assurance methodologies and processes
• Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate technical security risks to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in nuclear, defence, or similarly regulated sectors is desirable
• Relevant higher education qualification or industry certification, such as CISSP, CISM, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor
• Ability to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance; the posting states that candidates must be Sole UK Nationals

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement Information Assurance strategies to meet complex customer security requirements
• Lead risk management activities aligned with standards such as NIST SP 800-37 or the ISO/IEC 27000 series
• Create and maintain security documentation, including system security plans, policies, procedures, and compliance evidence
• Work with internal and external stakeholders, providing expert guidance on security and assurance matters

Technologies:

• Security
• Support

More:

We are Babcock, a global FTSE 100 organisation with more than 29,000 people. We are recruiting a full-time, permanent Product Security Engineer – Information Assurance for our Mission Technologies team in Ashton Vale, near Bristol, with hybrid working arrangements. In this role, you will help secure complex engineering systems supporting national security and critical infrastructure, working with multidisciplinary teams on defence and engineering projects. The position is 37 hours per week and offers competitive pay and benefits, including generous annual leave, a matched-contribution pension with life assurance, health and wellbeing services, an employee share scheme, shopping savings, professional fee payments, paid reservist leave, holiday trading, a paid volunteering day, and flexible working. We are committed to an inclusive culture and can discuss reasonable adjustments and alternative work patterns.

last updated 40 week of 2026