Operational Cyber Software Engineer – Manchester

BAE Systems; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems seeks an Operational Cyber Software Engineer to join their Manchester team. The role focuses on developing secure software solutions within a collaborative environment, leveraging various programming languages and development methodologies. Ideal candidates will have robust technical skills, passion for technology, and an eagerness to contribute to a new practice aimed at enhancing cyber defenses.

Benefits

Inclusive workplace culture with opportunities for training and development

Flexible working options for full and part-time applicants

Qualifications

• Familiarity with a variety of development tools (IDEs, debuggers, source control).
• Experience with development techniques such as unit testing, mocking, and continuous integration.
• Understanding of IT security principles.

Responsibilities

• Conduct, support and encourage constructive code reviews.
• Factor operational security requirements into system design and development.
• Plan appropriate testing approaches and justify them according to different risk profiles.

Skills

Proficient with at least 1 solution language (C++, Java, C#)

Proficient with at least 1 utility language (Python, JavaScript, Perl, PowerShell)

Intermediate/advanced understanding of how computers work

Able to use and configure more than one major operating system

Tools

Visual Studio

Eclipse

Git

SVN

Jira

Job description

Location(s):Manchester

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: Operational Cyber Software Engineer

Requisition ID: 121400

Location: Manchester – Full-time onsite work required, with consideration for both full and part-time applicants – please speak to your recruiter about the options

Grade: GG10 – GG12

We have an existing community of technical specialists across our Gloucester and London locations and we are now looking to grow our new Manchester hub to the same level. We are looking for enthusiastic and eager individuals, who are excited by the prospect of helping to build our new Manchester Operational Cyber practice from the ground up.

We offer a friendly and inclusive culture with great opportunities to learn from experts and make use of a carefully curated training plan with some of the best trainers and conferences available.

What you'll be doing

• Understand various development methodologies, and how they fit in with different delivery approaches.
• Factor operational security requirements into system design, development and testing.
• Conduct, support and encourage constructive code reviews for peers.
• Adopt a pragmatic approach to changing customer requirements and priorities, reporting on the impact and suggesting appropriate aspects to de-scope.
• Embrace emerging technology and language trends, evaluating beneficial emerging tools and championing their adoption and rollout.
• Conduct software development in line with the business and industry best practices.
• Identify risks associated with software development tasks and mitigate and/or escalate as necessary.
• Plan appropriate testing approaches (eg physical/virtual/real-world) and justify them according to the different risk profiles.
• Model and perform analysis on problems and solutions
• Design, code and document software from a logical design.
• Overcome development obstacles to deliver quality code within time and budget constraints.
• Collaborate with team members to integrate developed code seamlessly into the solution.
• Implement continuous integration where appropriate.
• Define and write test scripts and unit, integration and system tests for developed software.

What we're looking for

Essential:

Knowledge:

• Familiarity with of variety of development tools (IDEs, debuggers, source control).
• Principles of high-assurance development.
• Development techniques such as unit testing, mocking, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
• Understanding of how the specific customer domain affects the software under development.
• Awareness of IT security as a major issue for companies and governments.

Skills:

• Intermediate/advanced understanding of how computers work (eg stack/heap distinction, compiled/interpreted languages).
• Proficient with at least 1 “solution” language (eg C++, Java, C#).
• Proficient with at least 1 “utility” language (eg Python, Javascript, Perl, Powershell)
• Able to use and configure more than one major operating system (eg Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD)
• Able to pick up new languages easily.

Technologies:

• Operational developers are expected to have a high degree of flexibility.

Desirable:

Skills:

• Communicating technical concerns with a non-technical audience.
• Innovative problem solving
• Team working.
• Team leadership.

Technologies:

• Visual Studio
• Eclipse
• Git
• SVN
• Jira
• Linux
• Win32 API
• Posix
• Networking
• Mobile development

Applicants will need to be eligible to work in the UK and be able to successfully achieve an eDV UK security clearance. For more details, please click here

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 as 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

Inclusion is 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.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems DigitalIntelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of DigitalIntelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.