DevOps Engineer

BAE Systems; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and technology company is seeking a DevOps Engineer based in Leeds or London. This role involves working as part of an agile team to build and maintain applications, utilizing technologies such as AWS and Kubernetes. The company offers a competitive benefits package and supports a flexible working environment, emphasizing diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plan

Health and well-being benefits

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in driving delivery within agile teams.
• Ability to facilitate relationships between teams.
• Skills in documenting processes and managing issues efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that support core mission capabilities.
• Refine non-functional requirements and manage backlogs.
• Implement security best practices and maintain documentation.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Git

Job description

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

Location(s) continued: 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: DevOps Engineer

Location: Leeds / London

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

Grade: GG10-GG11

What You’ll Be Doing

As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you’ll be working with our Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous DevOps teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services.

• Contribute to refinement of non-functional requirements
• Drive the prioritisation and delivery of backlogs
• Implement security best-practices and recommendations; often through the means of developed services and automation

• Facilitate an effective relationship between third party suppliers and Home Office platform teams
• Participate in workstream and project Scrum ceremonies
• Raise issues and risks appropriately

• Ability to operate in small cross-functional engineering teams to build supportable, sustainable, and reliable services
• Create quality documentation and Jira ticket commentary

Working with the following technology is essential:

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Git

The 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 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 that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must at 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.

When applying for this role you will be redirected to BAE systems careers site where you will be required to:

• Register an account (this is optional, you can apply as a guest)
• Provide contact information
• Upload your cv
• Complete a short diversity & inclusion questionnaire

When asked source type, please select "job board advertisement" then "the IET / E+T Jobs"