JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Digital Distribution
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House, London the Light House – Hybrid 2 days a week in the office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,000 - £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the Digital Distribution Live Site team. We are responsible for the provisioning, configuration management and operational running of a number of key public-facing systems supporting many of the best-known BBC offerings.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
As part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, you’ll work with industry standard technologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams and enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development.
The role is ideal for someone looking to broaden their experiences of supporting servers at scale, troubleshooting complex issues, and maintaining high-traffic production systems, whilst finding opportunities to introduce new concepts.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* The automation of system provisioning, OS patching and compliance in a Linux environment.
* Developing and maintaining configuration management scripts and modules using Ansible and Puppet.
* Managing deployments at scale for both on-premise and remote sites.
* The issuance, secure handling and deployment of x509 certificates.
* Regular collaboration with neighbouring engineering/product groups.
* Proactive second line support for a range of systems and application stacks, including participation in an on-call rota.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Expertise in operating and troubleshooting Linux systems and related command-line tooling. Proficiency in Bash and one or more other scripting language e.g. Python.
* Experienced in Linux system provisioning, with proficiency in configuration management tools such as Ansible/Puppet and a solid understanding of deployment practices.
* Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering principles and a willingness to promote these.
* Sound working knowledge of httpd, NGINX, HTTPS, PKI, DNS, TCP/IP (v4 and v6) and Git.
* Preparedness to work in a small team in a high-profile environment with large traffic volumes.
Desired
* Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* Some experience of working with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodologies.
* Experience of Video Streaming technologies.
* Comfortable working with older legacy services with minimal documentation if needed.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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