Job Description

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 specification

London | Manchester with support for Hybrid working.



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\xe2\x80\x99ll be working with our National Security Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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 on AWS. You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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 Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer\xe2\x80\x99s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you\xe2\x80\x99ll 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 CloudFormation, 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\xe2\x80\x99ll help you with them

• AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or DevOps
• 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, FinOps
• Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, 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, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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.

About our team

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\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99 experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

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\xe2\x80\x99re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You\xe2\x80\x99ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We\xe2\x80\x99re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you\xe2\x80\x99ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA

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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\xe2\x80\x99re 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 \xe2\x80\x93 the best and brightest minds \xe2\x80\x93 can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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