DevOps Engineer

Location(s):
Gloucester or 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:

Dev Ops Engineer

Requistion

Location:

Gloucester or Manchester – Hybrid working offered, with consideration for both full and part-time applicants – please speak to your recruiter about the options

Grade: GG08 – GG13

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 a Dev Ops Engineer.

As a Dev Ops Engineer you provide a bridge between development, testing, network/infrastructure, operations and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous and high quality software delivery. The processes and tooling implemented by the Dev Ops Engineers enables Software Engineers to turn source code and associated artefacts into installation media and/or installed and configured environments.

You will typically combine the skills of coding or scripting and process reengineering with exemplary team working and communication skills. As a Dev Ops Engineer you should have a good breadth of knowledge across the disciplines of software development and how software is deployed.

You will be working in a multiple disciplined team, and require a broad range of technical and soft skills to enable the team to implement sound Dev Ops engineering practices and deliver value quickly and continuously. These skill are categorised into the following domains.

Automation skills :
Automation is a key skill domain for Dev Ops engineers, they need to be able to design, build and maintain automation solutions for building, testing, deploying application and infrastructure. Specific automation skills are:

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

Orchestration  – Deliver solutions to orchestrate the deployment, management scaling and networking of containers

Workload Automation  – Create solutions to automate the scheduling and scaling of application workloads

Cloud Management  – Skilled in the design, deployment and management of Public or Private Cloud environments

Configuration Management  – Practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts

Human skills :
Working in a multi-disciplined team Dev Ops engineers need to have great communication skills.

Problem Solving  – The Dev Ops engineer is often the first port of call to diagnose and resolve problems, they need to be able to understand the causes of issues across a number of domains including  infrastructure, code, networking and databases with enough knowledge to be able to fault find and identify the root cause

Collaboration  – Working within a Dev Ops team it is key that the Dev Ops engineers collaborate well with the team to ensure they are all working towards the same goal.

Knowledge sharing  – Effectively shares knowledge within the project team and within the wider organisation.

Flexibility  – Dev Ops engineers need to be flexible and quickly adapt to new situations and technology

Technical skills :
Dev Ops engineers need a good understanding of a vast number of technical skills, below are some of the key expected skills

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

Programming Languages  – Although programming is not the core skill of the Dev Ops engineer, they still need to be able to program to produce the automation that is required for the role. There will also be times that an understanding of coding is needed to problem solve issues

Containerisation  – Most Dev Ops…