Job Description
 

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: AWS Platform Engineer
Requisition ID: 121526
Location: London/Manchester/Leeds – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG09 – GG11
Referral Bonus: £5,000

Job Description

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 an experienced AWS Developer.

As a key member of a Cloud Platform Team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to build core mission applications. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS.  You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations.  You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.

We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers.  We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches.  You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Cloud Academy and Pluralsight.

It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues; Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
Demonstrable expertise designing and building with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM
Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python
A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc
Strong understand of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, FinOps
Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce
Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies
Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)
It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them

AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or DevOps
Coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language
Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc
Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes
Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks
Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

How we will support you

Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
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 and guide you on your journey through BAE
You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.  These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.
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 recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one.  The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well.  We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

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, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations.  We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products.  You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us.   We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this.  We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA