Junior System Engineer

Location(s): [[mfield3]]
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.

Role & Purpose

BAE Systems' DataBridge 6 is a market leading Lawful Intercept (LI) solution for deployment within a CSP's network. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are in the spotlight like never before. As terrorists and organised criminals make increasing use of social media and smartphones to facilitate their crimes and activities, the data they generate – which is transported by CSPs – is of huge value to Law Enforcement and National Security Agencies. It now forms a key element in their efforts to monitor threats, detect crimes and investigate and prosecute criminals.

What will you be doing?

• Working within a large sized multi-disciplinary team.

• Customer & project based Systems Engineering:

• Requirements analysis and evolution and development.

• Working with the engineering teams to build the required solution.
• Customer liaising and being a technical lead and authority for projects.

• Getting projects through testing phases with customers and into support.

• Rapid proto-typing and development of demonstration systems.

• Technical contribution to bids including estimation.
• Customer support, fault investigation, troubleshooting and training.

What are we looking for?

• A broad technical background: someone who can investigate, design, deploy and test software and platforms.
• Experience with designing production systems. Methods of business continuity, disaster proofing, load balancing, data replication/backup and HA.
• Excellent team working abilities including an understanding of other roles in the team and how to help each other. A system engineering leads and oversees projects.
• A highly motivated problem-solver with a strong desire to approach a problem in a hands-on, practical manner.
• Someone who can think on their feet and work in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to balance the needs of particular projects with the overall product and make informed decisions given constraints.

Desirable

• General

• Ability to multi-task and stay organised in a dynamic work environment.

• Experience in secure design.
• Quickly learn and apply new technologies.
• An understanding of the principles of version control and release management.

• Knowledge of networking, common protocols, telecommunications networking, OSI model and traffic analysis.

• Technologies

• Linux command line and configuration of core Linux system services.

• Virtualization and orchestration technologies (for example VMWare, AWS, Kubernetes).
• KVM and ESXI hypervisors.
• Version control tools such as Git or Perforce.
• Ansible
• Containerisation (e.g. Docker, K8S)

Nice to have

• General

• Understanding of software test approaches, frameworks, tools and test automation techniques; ideally at a range of levels: unit, integration and system test.

• Experience deploying and testing server hardening and security benchmarks such as CIS.
• An understanding of Agile practices and frameworks.

• Designing, configuring and maintaining statistics monitoring solutions such as ELK, TICK stacks.

• Technologies

• MySQL and MongoDB databases.

• Moderate scripting abilities using BASH or Python.
• Web UI and frontend architecture.
• Logstash, InfluxDB and Grafana.
• Certificates, IAM (Keycloak), Jenkins.
• Use of Wireshark.

We offer

• perm contract (3months probation period)
• hybrid working model
• private medical care (Medicover)
• life insurance
• Multikafeteria platform and lunch card
• company shares

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 that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Capabilities
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.