Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer – AWS – Up to £60k – New Role (REF
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Location: UK, Europe & Africa – Leeds

Are you passionate about working with cutting‑edge technology and self‑motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team that helps keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced AWS Developer. As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you’ll work with our National Security Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities.

You’ll collaborate with empowered, autonomous Dev Ops teams, flexibly and efficiently understanding, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining applications and services on AWS. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and work across a range of teams within our customer organisations.

We fully embrace Dev Ops ways of working and build a broad range of capabilities for our customers. We value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies. You’ll identify the right technologies for each job and receive training support such as Pluralsight access.

It’s an exciting time to join our team and shape our customers’ cloud adoption journey. Your work will directly impact critical systems and contribute to the security of the UK.

• Plenty of experience in AWS and 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 skills in Shell, Bash, or Python.
• Good coding experience in at least one Lambda‑compatible language.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g., Cloud Formation, CDK, Terraform).
• Experience with source control systems such as Git, Mercurial, Perforce.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills and a desire to learn new technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.).

It would be great if you also had experience in:

• AWS Certification at Associate level (Solution Architect, Developer, or Dev Ops).
• Microservices and API design.
• Docker and container platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS.
• Operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring, observability, and Fin Ops.
• CI/CD tools (Bamboo, Jenkins, Team City, Bitbucket) for streamlining delivery.
• Automated testing frameworks and continual code testing.
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing, and firewalls.

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently cleared, you must be eligible and willing to go through the clearance process.

• Work‑life balance is important; flexible core hours, part‑time options, and many roles include hybrid working.
• 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the previous year.
• Flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle‑to‑work scheme, taste cards and more.
• Dedicated Career Manager to help develop your career and guide your journey through BAE.
• Participation in company bonus scheme.
• Welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups covering gender diversity, mental health, and wellbeing.

Our people are resourceful, innovative, and dedicated. We blend generalists and specialists, recognising that diversity fuels success. Working across the Public Sector offers diverse opportunities for career growth with new clients.

We strive to create a culture that feels like a small team within a large company. Work is challenging and stretches you, but we encourage a healthy work‑life balance. Team collaboration and social activities, virtual or in person, help us have fun at work.

We will be part of the National Security business, the largest area within our UK operations. The goal is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients. We have over 700 employees working across security and law enforcement customers, and we aim to recruit 100 new members this year.

We have over 40 years of experience delivering advice and solutions to national security customers, supporting vital…