DevOps Engineer

Farnborough

7 months ago

Applications closed

Introduction

Saab UK is a British company that is part of Saab Group's global high-technology operations. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space and civil security. In the UK, we bring together the best of Swedish and British innovation and engineering to provide our customers with products and solutions that push boundaries for what is considered technically possible. Our mission is to help our customers to keep people and society safe.

As part of the global entity Saab AB, Saab UK combines the innovative spirit of a start-up with the resources and expertise of a larger corporation. Across the country, we have seven principal sites which focus on software engineering, AI swarming drones, underwater robotics, training services and radars. Globally, we number over 24,000 employees and have operations on all continents. Technologically, we are leaders in many areas and we reinvest a high proportion of our earnings in internal research and development. We collaborate with colleagues around the world who all share our challenge - to make the world a safer place.

Saab is a company with opportunities, a company where we see diversity as an asset and where you have both considerable responsibility as well as good opportunities for advancing in your career. Additionally, Saab is a company that respects each person's needs for a rewarding life beyond work.

The Role:

This role is part of our Sensor Systems Radar Business Unit in Farnborough.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining an efficient development-to-production pipeline. You'll sit closely with all the software developers, providing feedback and learning from each other how to achieve the best quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Automation & Deployment: Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD and others

System Monitoring & Maintenance: Monitor the health, performance or the current state of both the product and the CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration: Work closely with software developers, software testers, and other cross-functional teams to define and implement scalable, efficient, and high-performing infrastructure solutions.

CI/CD Pipeline: Set up and manage CI/CD workflows, enabling rapid and reliable software deployment cycles and improving release cycles with minimal downtime.

Security & Compliance: Implement best practices for security, access control, and regulatory compliance within the infrastructure and development pipelines.

Configuration Management: Maintain and optimize configurations for systems, tools, and environments, ensuring consistency across different platforms and stages of development.

Qualifications and skills:

Bachelor or Master in computer science or similar.

Experience with DevOps engineering, CI/CD or similar - Setting up and creating CI/CD Pipelines.

Interest in DevOps, Software and Quality.

Working in a structured way and comfortable creating technical documentation.

Working in an Agile environment.

Experience of Safety critical software.

Software lifecycles.

Jira, Jenkins, Git, Jenkins.

Microsoft Office package.

Linux environments.

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview

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