Systems Engineer

Package description

Job Requisition: 19941

Band: C

Salary range: £40,100 - £50,100 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 The Mailbox, Birmingham, however this is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

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.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job introduction

The BBC Technology Group provides the foundations for broadcasting. Technology engineering has a long history at the BBC and today includes everything from broadcast engineering, programme management, operations, DevOps, and software engineering.

This role is within the Newsroom Systems team and will focus on our news planning and deployment system.  This system is used by thousands of BBC journalists to plan upcoming news coverage, deploy people and resources to cover stories and to collaborate on those stories.

Primarily the role is concerned with supporting the AWS infrastructure used in the provision of the planning system. The team is responsible for the end-to-end operation, support, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the development, test, and live environments as well as contributing to the specification, design, and installation of these environments.  Integrating with other BBC and external systems is an important part of the team’s ongoing work.

Interview process

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

Main responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Systems Engineer with a DevOps mind-set and a breadth of knowledge covering cloud technologies – in particular, AWS. 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 maintaining, supporting, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting on products and services that form the foundation of the BBC News Planning technology estate. You’ll be of a mind-set that looks to automate repetitive tasks and rapidly surface issues requiring attention. The team manages the deployment of new code releases as part of the Continuous Integration pipeline.

The technologies and systems the role encompasses are varied and ever evolving so flexibility and the ability to quickly absorb and use new technologies are vital.

Are you the right candidate

Essential

•    Experience of configuration, administration, monitoring and maintenance of cloud-based business critical systems

•    Knowledge of database administration and associated tools, e.g.MS SQL, SSMS

•    Experience of using command-line interfaces and languages such as AWS CLI, PowerShell, Bash and Python

•    Experience of systems integration and systems automation

•    Skilled at identifying and troubleshooting system problems, providing 3rd/4th level support.

•    Good communication skills and ability to write technical specifications and requirements in a clear and concise manner

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 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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