Cloud Engineer

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK :
Leeds

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 Description

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 experienced AWS Developer.

As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous Dev Ops teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services on AWS.  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 Dev Ops ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers.  We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches.  You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Pluralsight.

It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. 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 who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues;
Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert

Demonstrable expertise with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM

Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python

Good coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language

Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg Cloud Formation, CDK, Terraform)

Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce

Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies

Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them

AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or Dev Ops

Expertise in microservices and API design

Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc

Strong understand of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, Fin Ops

Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Team City, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes

Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks

A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc

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.

How we will support you

Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working

As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office

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 private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more

You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you…