software engineer Leeds, England
Job description
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.
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we believe that digital technology is the key to unlocking our customers’ advantage. We are a highly respected engineering organisation providing services to governments around the world. At Digital Intelligence we are proud of the mission critical systems that we build for our customers, in areas that truly make a difference to society. We work in a number of sectors including Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Security, Defence, Space, Telecommunications and National and International Government to name a few.
We have a number of Software Engineering opportunities and we work with a variety of technologies. We are particularly looking for Java and JavaScript Software Engineers at several career levels. After you join us, you will help to build solutions that are a highly scalable, cloud microservice platforms based on Docker and AWS, using services such as Amazon ECS, EC2, RDS, PostgresSQL, ElastiCache, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, IAM, Lambda, KMS Kinesis, EMR and S3. You will care about creating efficient scalable, stable, and defecct free solutions, using your knowledge of a variery of frameworks and libraries and experience withTDD/BDD approaches.
Whilst we are not expecting people to have all the skills outlined below, you will be experienced with Java frameworks such as Spring/SpringBoot or JavaScript technologies such as React and Node. You will also have a passion for continuous personal development and be competent in picking up new technologies.
Skills that interest us include:
Databases (RDBMS or NoSQL)- AWS
- Messaging – JMS, SQS etc
- Unit Testing – They uses Jasmine, Cypress, Cucumber
- Functional / Reactive programming
- CI/CD – Devops - Docker, Jenkins
- Infrastructure as code – Python, Ansible, Cloudformation
- Scrum / Agile
- KAFKA
- Nifi
At BAE you will find an environment that supports your personal development. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of different projects and technologies. Our clients are constantly moving forwards with the technology that they use, and you will move forwards with them.
These roles require security clearance; if you are not security cleared already, you must be eligible to obtain 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.
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.
