Support Engineer

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London

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: Support Engineer

Location: London

Grade: GG09-GG10

Referral Bonus: £5000

What You'll Be Doing

The Support 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 with enough knowledge to be able to fault find and identify the root cause.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Incident management
2. Application design and development
3. Site reliability (observability, alerting, high-availability, self-healing systems etc.)
4. Database administration
5. Infrastructure provisioning
6. Process automation
7. Respond to change requests

Skills & Experience:

1. Oracle DB
2. Docker (with Docker Swarm)
3. Elastic Stack
4. Typescript/React/Node
5. Go
6. Prometheus/Garifuna
7. ESRI Maps
8. Ansible
9. Windows & Linux
10. Jenkins

Automation skills: Automation is a key skill domain for this role. Specific automation skills are:

1. Continuous Integration: Skilled in the tooling and principles of continually building, testing and integrating the software that developers produce
2. Continuous Deployment: Skilled in the automation of the deployment of the artefacts produced by the CI
3. Configuration Management: Practice good configuration and source code control of all artefacts

The Team:

As part of the NS&G UK Law Enforcement account, we have teams working on-site supporting critical national operational applications, systems and networks as well as developing new solutions to help tackle a broad variety of serious crime.

Ways of Working:

1. Due to the classification of the work, individuals have to be on site in Stratford at 5 days a week, with the ability to work from home occasionally.
2. The work requires SC clearance to start but the individual must be willing to go through MOD DV.
3. The Support Engineer typically combines the skills of coding or scripting and process reengineering with exemplary team working and communication skills.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.