DevOps Engineer: Secure Cloud, Automation & Reliability

BAE Systems; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer within Digital Intelligence to bridge software development, infrastructure and operations for faster, safer, and more reliable releases. You will automate deployments, build cloud and container platforms, and strengthen operational resilience across multidisciplinary teams.

This role spans the full delivery lifecycle, enabling secure, cloud-native platforms as well as legacy infrastructure, and requires contributing to automation,

Qualifications

• Evidence of building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Automating infrastructure, software delivery or deployment via code.
• Configuring and managing at least one public or private cloud platform.
• Configuring, hardening or maintaining at least one operating system.
• Working with a containerisation platform and an orchestration tool.
• Applying source control and configuration-management practices.
• Supporting deployment and understanding dependencies between apps and infrastructure.
• Diagnosing problems across infrastructure, applications, networks and databases.
• Embedding security considerations throughout development and operations.
• Working in an Agile or Scrum delivery environment.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining automation for the integration, testing, deployment and operation of software and infrastructure.
• Developing and improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Creating repeatable methods to configure, deploy, scale and manage workloads.
• Building and maintaining public or private cloud environments.
• Deploying and operating containerised applications and orchestration platforms.
• Applying configuration management to infrastructure, apps and deployment artefacts.
• Configuring and hardening operating systems and infrastructure.
• Using scripting to remove repetitive work and improve delivery reliability.
• Diagnosing issues across infrastructure, apps, networks and databases and working with specialists.
• Embedding security throughout development and operations and supporting incident management.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Source control

Security integration

Site Reliability Engineering

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

BAE Systems in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer within Digital Intelligence to bridge software development, infrastructure and operations for faster, safer, and more reliable releases. You will automate deployments, build cloud and container platforms, and strengthen operational resilience across multidisciplinary teams.

This role spans the full delivery lifecycle, enabling secure, cloud-native platforms as well as legacy infrastructure, and requires contributing to automation,