AWS Platform Engineer

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 ID: 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 DevOps 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, FinOps
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g., CloudFormation, 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 DevOps)
• 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, TeamCity, 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.

You will be joining our National Security business-the largest area within our UK operation. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. We have over 40 years of experience delivering advice and solutions in this sector.

You will work for a division that helps nations, governments and businesses defend against cybercrime, reduce risk in the connected world, comply with regulations, and transform operations. We are a consultancy and products business with a diverse workforce across multiple projects. We value Diversity and Inclusion and employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries.

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Join us to secure a connected world.

We embrace Hybrid Working, with options to work from home, another office, or client site. This approach offers flexibility in when and where we work, while supporting well-being and balance.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success. We foster an organisational culture where varied perspectives and experiences help us achieve excellence.