Cyber Security jobs in United Kingdom

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.

Are you passionate about working with cutting‑edge technology and self‑motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an Agile Coach.

As an Agile Coach for a Software Engineering team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build and run 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. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.

We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value scrum team members who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new approaches. You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right behaviours, best practices and development methodologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Pluralsight.

Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation that makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

• Leadership roles or responsibilities - either delivery or technically focussed - within a professional software, systems or service team
• Championing Scrum and agile principles within a team
• Knowledge of the software lifecycle and how to apply agile methodologies to large projects
• Coaching and mentoring junior software developers, setting an example for them and identifying areas for improvement and training
• Facilitating team meetings, helping to draw thoughts and ideas from all team members
• Task and knowledge management tools such as Confluence, JIRA and Trello
• Continually looking for process improvements
• Bringing enthusiasm and fun to your work!

• A Scrum certification such as PSM or CSM
• A scaled agile framework certification such as SAFe or Scrum@Scale
• Project management, including identifying and reporting on risks, issues and dependencies
• Service management, for example responding to incidents or outages, using problem solving skills and coordinating with multiple people or teams.
• Change management, including working with other teams and end users to make new feature deployments on live services more transparent, reducing risk
• Experience with software development or design

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

• Work‑life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part‑time working
• You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• Our flexible benefits package includes a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.

Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work‑life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA.

For more information please visit https://www.baesystems.com/en/cybersecurity/national-security

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