AWS Platform Engineer

Overview

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence brings together 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts across 10 countries to help governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses unlock digital advantage in demanding environments.

Job Title: AWS Platform Engineer

Location: London

Requisition : 121695

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and 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 Cloud Platform Team, you will work with National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to develop core mission applications. You will join empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end-users to design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS. You will have opportunities to work across different teams within our customer organisations and take ownership and responsibility commensurate with your appetite, supported by a larger Engineering community to help you grow in your career.

We embrace Dev Ops ways of working and aim to build a broad range of capabilities for our customers. We value engineers who participate in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and adopt new technologies and approaches. You will help identify the right technologies for the job and receive training through services such as Cloud Academy and Pluralsight.

It’s an exciting time to join our team and help shape our customer’s cloud adoption journey. Your work will directly impact the systems you contribute to, within an organisation that supports the security of the UK.

You will have experience in many of the following:

• Extensive AWS experience and ability to solve complex business issues; regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
• Demonstrated expertise designing and building with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM
• Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash or Python
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing and firewalls
• Strong understanding of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, Fin Ops
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g., Cloud Formation, CDK, Terraform)
• Source control in systems such as Git, Mercurial, or Perforce
• Good communication and problem-solving skills, with a desire to learn new technologies
• Experience working in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP)

It would be great if you also had some of these, but if not we’ll help you develop them:

• AWS Certification at Associate level (e.g., Solutions Architect, Developer or Dev Ops)
• Coding experience in at least one Lambda-compatible language
• Docker and container runtimes such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
• Experience using CI/CD tools (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, Team City, Bitbucket) to streamline delivery
• Automated testing frameworks for continual code testing

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

• Work-life balance with flexible and part-time options; hybrid working enabling a mix of home and office work
• 25 days of holiday per year with the option to buy/sell and carry over
• Flexible benefits including private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension, cycle to work, and more
• Dedicated Career Manager to help develop your career
• Eligible to participate in our company bonus scheme
• Access to Diversity and Support groups (e.g., gender diversity, mental health and wellbeing)

We value resourceful, innovative, and dedicated people. We mix generalists and specialists to deliver cutting-edge, high-quality solutions across the Public Sector, providing diverse opportunities to grow in new areas and with new clients. We strive for a culture that feels like a small company within a large organisation, offering a healthy work-life balance and opportunities to collaborate and have fun, in person or virtually as conditions allow.

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