DevOps Engineer

Location:

Gloucester

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.

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 a Dev Ops Engineer.

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you provide a bridge between development, testing, network/infrastructure, operations, and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous, and high-quality software delivery. The processes and tooling implemented by the Dev Ops Engineers enable Software Engineers to turn source code and associated artefacts into installation media and/or installed and configured environments.

You will typically combine the skills of coding or scripting and process reengineering with exemplary team working and communication skills. As a Dev Ops Engineer, you should have a good breadth of knowledge across the disciplines of software development and how software is deployed.

You will be working in a multi-disciplined team and require a broad range of technical and soft skills to enable the team to implement sound Dev Ops engineering practices and deliver value quickly and continuously. These skills are categorized into the following domains:

• Automation skills: Automation is a key skill domain for Dev Ops engineers; they need to be able to design, build, and maintain automation solutions for building, testing, deploying applications and infrastructure. Specific automation skills are:
• Continuous Integration: Skilled in the tooling and principles of continually building, testing, and integrating the software that developers produce.
• Continuous Deployment: Skilled in the automation of the deployment of the artefacts produced by the CI.
• Orchestration: Deliver solutions to orchestrate the deployment, management, scaling, and networking of containers.
• Workload Automation: Create solutions to automate the scheduling and scaling of application workloads.
• Cloud Management: Skilled in the design, deployment, and management of Public or Private Cloud environments.
• Configuration Management: Practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts.
• Human skills: Working in a multi-disciplined team, Dev Ops engineers need to have great communication skills.
• Problem Solving: The Dev Ops engineer is often the first port of call to diagnose and resolve problems; they need to be able to understand the causes of issues across a number of domains including infrastructure, code, networking, and databases.
• Collaboration: Working within a Dev Ops team, it is key that the Dev Ops engineers collaborate well with the team to ensure they are all working towards the same goal.
• Knowledge sharing: Effectively shares knowledge within the project team and within the wider organisation.
• Flexibility: Dev Ops engineers need to be flexible and quickly adapt to new situations and technology.
• Technical skills: Dev Ops engineers need a good understanding of a vast number of technical skills, below are some of the key expected skills:
• Cloud Platforms: Should be confident with the configuration of at least one Public or Private Cloud platform.
• Operating Systems: Should be able to configure, harden, and maintain at least one flavour of Operating System.
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Although programming is not the core skill of the Dev Ops engineer, they still need to be able to program to produce the automation required for the role.
• Containerisation: Most Dev Ops projects make use of containers;
  Dev Ops engineers must be experienced with at least one containerisation platform and orchestration tool.
• Application Technologies: Although application development is not the main focus of a Dev Ops engineer, they need a high-level understanding of application development technology.
• Databases: Should be able to deploy and maintain different database management systems.
• Legacy Infrastructures: Dev Ops engineers need to be able to understand legacy technology.
• Multi-discipline enabling skills: Dev Ops teams maintain the products they produce from development through to operations, Dev Ops engineers need an understanding of multiple disciplines to help the team succeed.
• IT Operations: Responsible for managing the ongoing BAU support of the platform in operational environments.
• Security: Ensure security is considered early in the development lifecycle and constantly maintained.
• Application Development & Delivery: To effectively work with developers in the team, Dev Ops engineers need a good understanding of application development methods and delivery.
• Architecture: Need to be able to design and document architectures using best practices, patterns, and frameworks.
• Process & Framework…