AWS Platform Engineer

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.

Job Title:

AWS Platform Engineer

Requisition

Location:

Leeds - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG09 - GG11

Referral Bonus: £5,000

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 an experienced AWS Developer.

As a key member of a Cloud Platform Team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to build core mission applications. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end‑users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS.

You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.

We fully embrace Dev Ops ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Cloud Academy and Pluralsight.

It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

You will have experience in many of the following:

• Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues;
  Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
• Demonstrable 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

• A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc
• Strong understand of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, Fin Ops
• Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce
• Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies
• Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them

• AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or Dev Ops
• Coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language
• Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc
• Utilising CI / CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Team City, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes
• Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks

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

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
• You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy / sell and carry over from the year before
• Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a…