Software Engineer

at  BAE Systems

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 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.
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence are urgently seeking a dynamic and ambitious Software Engineer to join a high-performing team engaged on a range of large-scale public sector engagements.
You will operate as a bridge between development, testing, network/infrastructure, operations, and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous, and high quality software delivery. The processes and tools you will implement will enable software engineers to turn source code and associated artefacts into installation media, and/or installed and configured environments.

Skills & Experience in your Toolkit:

• Continuous Integration – skilled in the tooling and principles of continually building, testing, and integrating the software that developers produce.
• Continuous Deployment – skilled in the automation of the deployment of the artefacts produced by the CI.
• Configuration Management – practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts.
• Cloud Platforms – should be confident with the configuration of a least one public or private Cloud platform.
• Operating Systems – should be able to configure, harden, and maintain at least one flavour of operating system.
• Containerisation – experience with at least one containerisation platform and orchestration tool.
• High-level understanding of application development technology to enable build and deployment.
• Databases – should be able to deploy and maintain different database management systems and understand enough to fault find issues.
• Legacy infrastructures – need to be able to understand the legacy technology in certain projects.
• Good experience with Ansible and RHEL.
• Experience with object oriented languages such as Java or .Net.
• 3+ years experience working in a similar role

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain automation solutions for building, testing, deploying application, and infrastructure.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams to problem solve, knowledge share, and collaborate to achieve common goals.
• Maintain products produced from development through to operations.
• Responsible for managing on-going BAU support of platforms in operation environments, including change and incident management, service requests, and proactive monitoring and maintenance.
• Ensure security is considered early in the development lifecycle and constantly maintained.
• Design and document architectures using best practice, patterns, and frameworks.
• Deliver solutions to orchestrate the deployment, management scaling and networking of containers

Skills & Experience in your Toolkit:

• Continuous Integration – skilled in the tooling and principles of continually building, testing, and integrating the software that developers produce.
• Continuous Deployment – skilled in the automation of the deployment of the artefacts produced by the CI.
• Configuration Management – practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts.
• Cloud Platforms – should be confident with the configuration of a least one public or private Cloud platform.
• Operating Systems – should be able to configure, harden, and maintain at least one flavour of operating system.
• Containerisation – experience with at least one containerisation platform and orchestration tool.
• High-level understanding of application development technology to enable build and deployment.
• Databases – should be able to deploy and maintain different database management systems and understand enough to fault find issues.
• Legacy infrastructures – need to be able to understand the legacy technology in certain projects.
• Good experience with Ansible and RHEL.
• Experience with object oriented languages such as Java or .Net.
• 3+ years experience working in a similar role.

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is creating an environment for engineers to grow and maximise their potential, providing the platform to learn and innovate, as they encourage a growth mindset. This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious DevOps Engineer to join a global service provider at the forefront of highly impactful, critical government projects. BAE Systems Digital Intelligence provides a structured career path with extensive scope for career progression, as well as a market leading remuneration package.