Platform Engineer

BAE Systems (New); Gloucester, Guildford, Leeds, London, Preston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this hybrid role, you will be pivotal in building and maintaining environments and tooling for innovative software solutions tailored for high-profile clients in the defense sector. Your expertise in Microsoft Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes will be essential as you collaborate with a diverse group of professionals committed to making a difference. This position offers the opportunity to work flexibly while contributing to impactful projects that enhance national security and defense capabilities. Join a culture that values diversity and empowers you to reach your full potential.

Qualifications

• Strong Cloud experience with Microsoft Azure and Terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes and security features in Azure.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain environments and pipelines for software solutions.
• Support development and deployment for high-profile defense customers.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Networking and Infrastructure Management

Linux Operating System

Windows Operating System

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

As a Platform Engineer, 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. This role is hybrid and will involve some travel to customer sites as required (approx. once per month), particularly during launches and deployments.

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
• 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 which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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.

Security Clearance

Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. Security Vetting and Clearance

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.