Software Engineer

Package description

Salary range: Band C (Software Engineer)
Contract type: permanent
Location: <Supply Location> (1 day in the office)
  

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
 

•    An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
•    26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
•    Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes 
•    Employee assistance and well-being programmes
•    Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
•    An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
 

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome people from underrepresented groups. 
 

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject.

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.

Interview process

Applications received will be evaluated and candidates deemed suitable will proceed through the following interview process:

• Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour preparation time
• Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions

Main responsibilities

Within this role you could have the opportunity to create automated effective solutions to solve business problems within the BBCs cloud estate. You will be working in a 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:

• Development of tools to identify risks and automate vulnerability patching 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.
• Tooling that enables CI/CD and encourages cloud best practices.
• 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.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential Skills:

Software Development:

• Hands-on experience in software development including testing, preferably in Node.JS or Python.
• Experience with writing and documenting maintainable software within collaborative environments.
• Competence in Test-Driven Development methodology.
• Demonstrable technical and analytical experience working across business functions (Development / Product Owners / User Experience).

Cloud Expertise:

• Working experience of either AWS Cloud Administration or PaaS / SaaS Software Engineering in a medium - large scale organisation.

Adaptability:

• Ability to quickly acquire new software skills and adopt emerging technologies to satisfy business needs.

Non-Functional Requirements:

• Exposure to non-functional requirements such as monitoring, observability, and maintainability (through readable code and documentation).

Deployment:

• Experience and understanding of creating and maintaining automated pipelines for deployment to production.
• Experience releasing software to production including load testing.

Desirable Skills:

• Hold a current AWS certification.
• Familiarity with Unix or Linux configuration and administration.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols, and AWS networking.
• Familiarity with threat models.
• Ability to communicate complex solutions clearly and persuasively to audiences with varying technical backgrounds on a 1 to 1 or group basis.
• Knowledge or exposure to collaborative techniques such as pair programming and code reviews, promoting code quality and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Experience of supporting services outside of standard working hours ensuring the continuity and reliability of systems beyond regular business hours.

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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.  Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC.  We have a working environment where we value and respect every person’s unique contribution, enabling all of 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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.