Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Preston – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: £55,000 + depending on skills and experience
What You'll Be Doing
Designing and implementing GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerised services to AKS
Building and maintaining Dockerfiles and container image workflows, pushing to internal container registries
Defining and managing AKS cluster configurations, ensuring secure and scalable workloads
Writing and maintaining Terraform modules for provisioning cloud infrastructure in line with Azure Landing Zone standards
Managing secrets, configuration, and access using Azure Key Vault and Azure AD
Ensuring connectivity between on-prem services and Azure cloud infrastructure using GreenLink and hybrid networking
Collaborating with MLOps and Data Engineers to ensure reproducible, reliable, and auditable infrastructure across environments
Monitoring system health, logging, and metrics using platform observability tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana where applicable)
Your Skills And Experiences
Writing and debugging CI/CD pipelines
Building container images using Docker
Managing infrastructure lifecycle in Azure using IaC
Collaborating across technical and non-technical teams
Understanding and applying secure coding and deployment principles
Troubleshooting system and deployment issues at infrastructure level
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Shared Services Data & Analytics Team
The Shared Services Data & Analytics Team is at the heart of our company data landscape, bringing together data from our global operations and generating a broad range of insights to inform key business decisions
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. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 5th March 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.