Systems Engineer

Job Details

• Band: C
• Contract Type:
  Permanent, Full-time
• Department:
  Media Tech, Product and Design
• Location:
  
  Birmingham / Hybrid
• Proposed Salary Range: £41,000 - £51,000

You will be involved in maintaining, supporting, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting on products and services that form the foundation of the BBC News Planning technology estate. You’ll have a mindset that looks to automate repetitive tasks and rapidly surface issues requiring attention. The team manages the deployment of new code releases as part of the Continuous Integration pipeline.

The BBC Technology Group provides the foundations for broadcasting. Technology engineering has a long history at the BBC and today includes everything from broadcast engineering, programme management, operations, Dev Ops, and software engineering.

We are looking for an experienced Systems Engineer with a Dev Ops mind‑set and a breadth of knowledge covering cloud technologies – in particular, AWS. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop and demonstrate your Dev Ops engineering skills working in a cutting edge and challenging field.

This role is within the Newsroom Systems team and will focus on our news planning and deployment system. This system is used by thousands of BBC journalists to plan upcoming news coverage, deploy people and resources to cover stories and to collaborate on those stories.

• Supporting the AWS infrastructure used in the provision of the planning system.
• Responsible for the end‑to‑end operation, support, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the development, test, and live environments.
• Contributing to the specification, design, and installation of these environments.
• Integrating with other BBC and external systems is an important part of the team’s ongoing work.

• Experience in configuration, administration, monitoring and maintenance of cloud‑based business critical systems.
• Knowledge of database administration and associated tools, e.g. MS SQL, SSMS.
• Experience using command‑line interfaces and languages such as AWS CLI, Power Shell, Bash and Python.
• Experience of systems integration and systems automation.
• Skilled at identifying and troubleshooting system problems, providing 3rd/4th level support.
• Good communication skills with examples of writing technical specifications and requirements in a clear and concise manner.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy.

We are happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to indicate your preference in the application – there’s no obligation at this stage. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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