National Security Cyber Operations Specialist

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Engineer to join our team in Manchester. As a key member of our Operational Cyber practice, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing secure software systems to protect our customers' critical infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand various development methodologies and how they fit in with different delivery approaches.
• Factor operational security requirements into system design, development, and testing.
• Conduct, support, and encourage constructive code reviews for peers.
• Adopt a pragmatic approach to changing customer requirements and priorities, reporting on the impact and suggesting appropriate aspects to de-scope.
• Embrace emerging technology and language trends, evaluating beneficial emerging tools and championing their adoption and rollout.
• Conduct software development in line with the business and industry best practices.
• Identify risks associated with software development tasks and mitigate and/or escalate as necessary.
• Plan appropriate testing approaches (e.g., physical/virtual/real-world) and justify them according to the different risk profiles.
• Model and perform analysis on problems and solutions.
• Design, code, and document software from a logical design.
• Overcome development obstacles to deliver quality code within time and budget constraints.
• Collaborate with team members to integrate developed code seamlessly into the solution.
• Implement continuous integration where appropriate.
• Define and write test scripts and unit, integration, and system tests for developed software.

Requirements

• Familiarity with a variety of development tools (IDEs, debuggers, source control).
• Principles of high-assurance development.
• Development techniques such as unit testing, mocking, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
• Understanding of how the specific customer domain affects the software under development.
• Awareness of IT security as a major issue for companies and governments.
• Intermediate/advanced understanding of how computers work (e.g., stack/heap distinction, compiled/interpreted languages).
• Proficient with at least 1 'solution' language (e.g., C++, Java, C#).
• Proficient with at least 1 'utility' language (e.g., Python, Javascript, Perl, Powershell).
• Able to use and configure more than one major operating system (e.g., Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD).
• Able to pick up new languages easily.

Desirable Skills

• Communicating technical concerns with a non-technical audience.
• Innovative problem solving.
• Team working.
• Team leadership.
• Visual Studio.
• Eclipse.
• Git.
• SVN.
• Jira.
• Linux.
• Win32 API.
• Posix.
• Networking.
• Mobile development.

Security Clearance

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.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate, and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences, and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations, and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts, and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve, and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division Overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Our Government business unit houses four of our critical client groups: UK National Security, Global National Security, defence, and central government. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating. As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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