Job Title: Application Support Analyst
Location: Hybrid, Brize Norton
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71075
Keep vital aviation systems running at their best
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Application Support Analyst at Brize Norton, near Carterton, Oxfordshire.
The role
As an Application Support Analyst, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the smooth running, integrity and availability of our aviation applications. This is an opportunity to make a real difference supporting the digital systems that keep critical aircraft operations moving safely and efficiently.
Day-to-day, your expertise will help to protect people, assets and national security, while growing your career in a dynamic and purposeful environment.
- Manage aviation applications across their full lifecycle, including maintenance, support and upgrades.
- Oversee code releases and configuration changes across development, test, UAT and production environments.
- Resolve incidents and service requests for both custom‑built and commercial off‑the‑shelf applications.
- Work with internal and external support partners to maintain application performance and availability.
- Provide out‑of‑hours support when required to ensure system continuity.
This role is full time OR part time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Application Support Analyst
- Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server in high‑availability environments.
- Familiarity with integration tools such as SAP NetWeaver, SSIS and IBM MQ.
- Experience in release management, including promoting code and managing changes across environments.
- Background in managing software incidents and problems via a Service Desk platform.
- Strong understanding of application technologies, configuration, and scripting languages including VBScript, JavaScript, PowerShell and XML.
Qualifications for the Application Support Analyst
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. No dual nationals can apply 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
- 10 days’ special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading — buy or sell up to one working week of leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid day each year for volunteering
- Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
- A dynamic working environment where curiosity, collaboration and innovation thrive
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 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: 03/02/2026
