Technical Security Engineer

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Technical Security Engineer

Location: London - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG11-GG13

The Technical Security Engineer will support the delivery of complex cybersecurity remediation activities across Government Departments and wider Public Sector organisations. The role combines technical and security engineering expertise, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on implementation capability to improve cyber resilience, strengthen identity and access controls, enhance data protection, and reduce organisational risk.

The role requires an individual capable of operating independently within complex stakeholder environments, assessing security weaknesses, developing remediation approaches, and successful implementation.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide technical engineering expertise across a range of Cyber Uplift engagements within Government Departments.
• Develop high level technical remediation strategies into specific remediation activities/technical implementations to improve client security maturity.
• Support technical design reviews and security workshops with customer stakeholders.
• Provide integration between Architecture and Engineering to ensure remediation activities align with enterprise security architectures.
• Support translation of security findings, vulnerabilities and audit observations into practical remediation plans.

• Deep technical expertise across Microsoft security technologies.

Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of:
• Identity and Access Management
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Data Protection
• Security Operations
• Threat Detection and Response
• Cloud Security
• Experience implementing Microsoft Sentinel and Defender technologies at enterprise scale.
• Experience implementing Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection capabilities.
• Strong understanding of Azure and Microsoft 365 security architectures.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting complex enterprise security environments.
• Ability to personally deliver hands-on technical configuration and remediation activities.
• Experience deploying security controls across hybrid and cloud environments.
• Understanding of Government security requirements and operating models.

Our Team

We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people’s efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.