Platform Engineer

Babcock; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems is looking for a Cloud Engineer in Gloucester to support defense projects. The role involves utilizing cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure and Terraform for software deployment and maintenance. This hybrid position offers flexibility, with work primarily from home and occasional site visits.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Azure security features and implementations.
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code and managing remote terraform state files.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain environments, tooling, and pipelines for software development.
• Travel to customer sites as required during launches and deployments.

Skills

Cloud experience with Microsoft Azure

Networking and infrastructure management

Terraform for Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Job description

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Guildford || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Preston

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.

What You Will Be Doing

You will be responsible for building, deploying and maintaining the environments, tooling, and pipelines to support the development and deployment of newly developed software solutions to high profile customers within the defence sector. Whilst this role is a hybrid role, the working pattern will be mainly working from home with travel to customer sites as required (approx. 1-3 days once per month). particularly during launches and deployments.

The role is working on a major UK project and the role provides a springboard to work on other interesting projects as well as personal development.

What We Are Looking For?

Essential :

• Strong Cloud experience with Microsoft Azure ( combining experience and strong understanding of networking and infrastructure management tools within the platform,
• Experience of various security features and implementations within Azure
• Strong experience of using Terraform for Infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Kubernetes

Desirable :

• Experience of working within both Linux and Windows Operating Systems
• Experienced with both Linux and Windows OS,
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code and managing remote terraform state files, knowledge of azure landing zone and how it is built (good understanding of the networking and security across the architecture) + NiFi.

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

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.