Software Engineering role, specifically Cloud Engineering, with BBC Studios in Salford.

About the job

Company: BBC Studios

Based in: Salford

Job Introduction

The BBC has a vision to be a modern, digital-led and streamlined organisation that derives the most value from the licence fee and delivers the best for audiences. Our engineering enablement teams are a vital part of this strategy, providing capabilities that let our engineering team build efficient, reliable, sustainable services fast, and a community that helps constantly improve organisational practices and results.

The scope of teams that engineering enablement work with is truly exciting, serving both the BBC Product and Technology Group. The BBC Product Group delivers audience facing product such as News, Sport, iPlayer, Sounds and Bitesize, and the BBC Technology Group covers a vast array of systems including content creation and capture, media transcoding and distribution.

Role Responsibility

Within this role you have the opportunity to create automated effective solutions to solve business problems within the BBCs cloud estate. You will be working in an agile team creating solutions that power the entire organisation, across hundreds of AWS accounts and thousands of internal users. You will need to be able understand and adapt to new problem spaces and technologies, to help provide support for the changing requirements of an evolving cloud ecosystem.

Over the next couple of years some key project you could be involved with are:

• Automating the provisioning of AWS Accounts with pre-configured security stances.
• Development of tools to identify risks in the cloud accounts and exposure of these via a

centralised online portal.

• Creation of BBC tailored cloud native base Linux OS images for different architectures for use across the organisation.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential

• Working experience of either AWS Cloud Administration or Software Engineering in a medium – large scale organisation
• Experience writing and documenting maintainable software within collaborative environments
• Competence in Test Driven Development
• Ability to rapidly acquire new software skills and to work with new technologies
• An appreciation of BBC output and a passion for technology in the new media environment
• Experience releasing software to production including load testing and threat modelling.
• Demonstrable technical and analytical experience working across business functions (Development / Product Owners / User Experience).

Desirable

• Hold a current AWS certification
• Unix or Linux system administration experience
• Knowledge of Internet protocols, and AWS networking.
• Ability to present complex solutions effectively to differing technical abilities within group settings

Package Description

Band: CContract type: Permanent

Location: Salford – Dock House

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.