DevOps Engineer (eDV Cleared)

As a DevOps Engineer in Digital Intelligence at BAE Systems, you unite development, infrastructure and operations to speed, secure and stabilize delivery for national security missions. You will automate deployments, build cloud and container platforms, and embed security across the lifecycle. You’ll work across sub-accounts and teams, contributing to secure, reliable delivery for critical capabilities. This role blends cloud-native and traditional infrastructure with broad engineering impact.

• Design, build and maintain automation for integration, testing, deployment and operation of software and infrastructure
• Develop and improve continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Create repeatable methods to configure, deploy, scale and manage workloads
• Build and maintain public or private cloud environments
• Deploy and operate containerised applications and orchestration platforms
• Apply configuration management and source-control practices to infrastructure, application and deployment artefacts
• Configure, harden and maintain operating systems and infrastructure
• Use programming or scripting to remove repetitive work and improve delivery
• Diagnose issues across infrastructure, applications, networks and databases and coordinate root-cause analysis
• Embed security throughout development and operational processes
• Support monitoring, incident management and change control in operation environments
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve availability and resilience
• Produce architecture and technical documentation using relevant patterns and frameworks
• Collaborate within an agile team and contribute to planning and reviews
• Share knowledge within the project and with the wider engineering community
• Mentor and guide colleagues appropriate to the grade and scope

• Building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Automating infrastructure, software delivery or operational processes through code or scripting
• Configuring and managing at least one cloud platform
• Configuring, hardening or maintaining at least one operating system
• Working with a containerisation platform and an orchestration tool
• Applying source control and configuration-management practices
• Supporting application deployment and understanding dependencies between applications and underlying infrastructure
• Diagnosing technical problems across infrastructure, application code, networking and databases
• Applying security considerations during development, deployment and operation
• Working with established infrastructure or legacy technology where modernisation is incremental
• Contributing within an Agile or Scrum delivery environment
• Applying or understanding Site Reliability Engineering principles
• Communicating technical information clearly with colleagues from different disciplines
• Sharing knowledge and adapting approach as requirements or circumstances change

• Clear communication
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Adaptability
• CI/CD pipelines
• Scripting/Code automation
• Public or private cloud platforms