Senior Systems Engineer

Package Description

Job Reference: 23850

Band: D

Salary: Up to £64,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Office Base is London - Energy Centre/Hybrid

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

BBC Technology Group provides the foundations for broadcasting. Engineering has a long history at the BBC and today includes everything from broadcast engineering, programme management, operations and DevOps software engineering. Our challenge is to take advantage of the rapidly changing technology and media landscapes for the benefit of the public.

BBC Monitoring is funded by the license fee, providing our customers with 80 years of expertise and sharing the benefits of our extensive partnership network. Our mission is to provide coverage of international media in more than 100 languages.

The tools we create for our journalists are web-based editing and publication, plus video capture and streaming to users.

Interview process

•    Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour over Teams

•    Virtual interview – approx. one hour and a half of technical and values-based questions

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer in our BBC Monitoring Development team.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer with a good breadth of knowledge, covering on premises and AWS hosting to automated deployment of software. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop and demonstrate your DevOps engineering skills working in a cutting edge and challenging field.

You will be involved in designing and developing the products and services that form the foundation of the BBC Monitoring (and the wider BBC) technology estate. You’ll be part of a highly acclaimed self-organising, cross-functional, agile team. You will be involved in the complete lifecycle from scoping through to testing and maintaining key services across a range of platforms.

Are you the right candidate?

Here are the technical skills we are looking for:

•    Proven expertise securely operating and troubleshooting Linux systems, ideally Rocky/Red Hat.

•    Hands on experience of deploying open source / proprietary software with a Linux platform using continuous integration methodologies and infrastructure as code e.g. Jenkins, Ansible, CloudFormation.

•    Experience with hardware servers, virtual machines, firmware patching and remote management.

•    Experience of AWS cloud technologies, e.g. S3, SQS, Lambda and EC2

•    Good understanding of key network technologies, including TCP/IP, QoS, VLANs, Multicast

Other desirable skills are:

•    Experience in at least one scripting language e.g. Python, Groovy, bash

•    Experience of using software control systems e.g. Git

•    Experience of system installation (e.g. PXEboot), configuration and administration

•    Experience of working with databases. E.g. Mysql, PostgreSQL and OpenSearch.

•    Engaged with current best security practices.

•    Experience of service infrastructure design using virtualisation technologies and containers.

•    Experience of single sign on e.g. OIDC

•    Experience of Video Streaming technologies.

•    Some experience of working with agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodologies.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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