Location(s): 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.
Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as a DevOps Engineer.
As a DevOps Engineer you provide a bridge between development, testing, network/infrastructure, operations and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous and high quality software delivery. The processes and tooling implemented by the DevOps Engineers enables Software Engineers to turn source code and associated artefacts into installation media and/or installed and configured environments.
You will typically combine the skills of coding or scripting and process reengineering with exemplary team working and communication skills. As a DevOps Engineer you should have a good breadth of knowledge across the disciplines of software development and how software is deployed.
You will be working in a multiple disciplined team, and require a broad range of technical and soft skills to enable the team to implement sound DevOps engineering practices and deliver value quickly and continuously. These skills are categorized into the following domains:
* Automation skills:
o Continuous Integration - Skilled in the tooling and principles of continually building, testing and integrating the software that developers produce
o Continuous Deployment - Skilled in the automation of the deployment of the artefacts produced by the CI
o Orchestration - Deliver solutions to orchestrate the deployment, management scaling and networking of containers
o Workload Automation - Create solutions to automate the scheduling and scaling of application workloads
o Cloud Management - Skilled in the design, deployment and management of Public or Private Cloud environments
o Configuration Management - Practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts
* Human skills:
o Problem Solving - The DevOps engineer is often the first port of call to diagnose and resolve problems.
o Collaboration - Working within a DevOps team it is key that the DevOps engineers collaborate well with the team.
o Knowledge sharing - Effectively shares knowledge within the project team and within the wider organisation.
o Flexibility - DevOps engineers need to be flexible and quickly adapt to new situations and technology.
* Technical skills:
o Cloud Platforms - Should be confident with the configuration of at least one Public or Private Cloud platform
o Operating Systems - Should be able to configure, harden and maintain at least one flavour of Operating System
o Programming Languages - Although programming is not the core skill of the DevOps engineer, they still need to be able to program to produce the automation that is required for the role.
o Containerisation - Must be experienced with at least one containerisation platform and orchestration tool
o Application Technologies - Need a high level understanding of application development technology to enable them to build and deploy.
o Databases - Should be able to deploy and maintain different database management systems.
o Legacy Infrastructures - Need to understand legacy technology.
* Multi-discipline enabling skills:
o IT Operations - Responsible for managing the on-going BAU support of the platform in operation environments.
o Security - Ensure security is considered early in the development lifecycle.
o Application Development & Delivery - To effectively work with developers in the team.
o Architecture - Need to be able to design and document architectures using best practices.
* Process & Framework Knowledge:
o Agile - Should understand the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles.
o Scrum - Should be an active member of the scrum team.
o SRE - Should understand SRE principles and apply these.
Please note that it is essential that you currently hold high level UK security clearance.
How we will support you
* Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working.
* You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before.
* Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more.
* You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career.
* You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme.
* You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.
About our team
Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success.
We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector.
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 or another BAE Systems office.
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 can work together to achieve excellence. #J-18808-Ljbffr