DevOps Engineer - Hybrid - Gloucester, Guildford or London London, England
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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.
DevOps Engineer – Hybrid - Gloucester, Guildford or London
We’re growing our team! Our platform engineers help design and build applications for a range of critical public & government services and we need more passionate individuals to help that mission. You will be working at the cutting edge of cloud technology and solutions as part of a vibrant and inclusive team that fosters positivity and development at its centre. You will work across a range of projects and services, interacting with a wide variety of stakeholders to build common platforms, tooling and processes at various stages of the software development lifecycle. We’re agile by default and we introduce and operate practices such as continuous deployment to support live applications. We strive to create solutions that are reusable, scalable and driven by automation.
You’ll be joining a team that understands that you get the best from people by encouraging them to be themselves and by allowing creativity to flourish. We support this by empowering our teams to own a solution throughout the development lifecycle whilst providing senior engineering support where needed. You will also be supported to develop your skills through regular training and development and will be joining a community of engineers who understand the importance of knowledge sharing.
We work on a hybrid pattern with office days as needed and this role can be based from London, Guildford or Gloucester offices.
What you will be doing:
- Supporting and monitoring live applications
- Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure
- Design, build and maintain build and release pipelines.
- Manage integrations between hosting platforms and applications
- Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes
- Automate efficient working practices where possible
- You will be supporting our customers in the UK and abroad so if you are keen to have the opportunity to travel this could be a great role for you!
The skills and experience we are looking for:
You will need to be a confident communicator as you will be working in a customer facing capacity and have experience of working in an Agile environment
You will need a solid base level knowledge in some or most of the below technologies and be able and willing to learn the specifics:
- Elasticsearch; Kafka; Ansible
- Linux; HDFS/YARN
- Docker and Swarm or Kubernetes
- VMWare and Dell server management
How we will support you:
- Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package 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 develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
- Don’t know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career
- You’ll be part of our 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 well being.
Security Clearance
Only those with the permanent, unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered. Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government security clearance prior to starting with us and be eligible for DV clearance. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance
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’re 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 – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
