Location(s):UK, Europe and Africa : UK : London
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.
Job Description
Are you passionate about working with cutting:edge cloud technologies and motivated to deliver innovative solutions to complex challenges that help keep the UK safe? JoinBAE Systemsas an experiencedDatabase Administrator (DBA)with deep expertise inAWS database services.
As a key member of ourPlatform Engineering team, you'll design, build, and maintainsecure, resilient, and highly available database platformsthat underpin mission:critical systems for our National Security customers. These platforms are the backbone for applications that protect the UK, and you'll play a vital role in ensuring they arecloud:optimized, performant, and compliant.
You'll work in empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with engineering and end:users todesign, deploy, and support database solutions across AWS and hybrid environments. You'll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and will have the opportunity to work across a range of customer projects. You'll have ownership and responsibility for your solutions while being part of a wider engineering community that supports your growth.
We fully embraceDevOps and Cloud:first principles, so we value engineers who enjoy working across the full delivery lifecycle and are eager to learn new technologies. You'll helpdefine and implement best practices for AWS:native database services, ensuring security, scalability, and automation are at the heart of everything we deliver.
It's an exciting time to join us and shape our customers' cloud journey. Your work will make a direct impact on systems that matter-and you'll do it for an organisation that makes a huge impact on the security of the UK.
About you
You will havehands:on experience in many of the following:
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:AWS Database Services: Deep expertise inAmazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle)andAurora, including provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, and performance tuning.
:AWS Native Capabilities: Experience withbackup and recovery strategies using AWS tools, automated failover, multi:AZ deployments, read replicas, and monitoring viaCloudWatch.
:Security and Compliance: ImplementingIAM roles, encryption (KMS), auditing, and patchingin AWS environments.
:Automation and Infrastructure as Code: UsingTerraform or CloudFormationto provision and manage database resources.
:Performance Optimization: Query tuning, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting in cloud environments.
:Scripting: Strong skills inPython, Bash, or Shellfor automation and operational tasks.
:Operating Systems: Working knowledge ofLinux and Windows.
:Communication and Problem:Solving: Ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to new technologies.
:Agile Delivery: Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we'll help you with them:
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:Experience withCI/CD pipelinesfor database deployments (Jenkins, Bamboo).
:Familiarity withcontainerization(Docker, Kubernetes).
:Certifications such asAWS Certified Database : Specialty,AWS Solutions Architect, orOracle OCP
Security Clearance is required for this vacancy.If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.
How we will support you
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:Work:life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part:time working
:As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of o