Software Engineer

JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: C CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time. DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group LOCATION: Salford - Dock House (1 day a week in the office) PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE Join Engineering Enablement to help shape the BBC’s cloud platform, enabling teams across the organisation to build reliable, secure and scalable services at speed. As a Software Engineer, you’ll enhance core tooling and automation used hundreds of times a day, contributing to a modern, digital-led BBC. Your work will support products used by millions globally and empower technology teams across content creation, media pipelines and audience‑facing experiences. WHY JOIN THE TEAM Become part of a collaborative engineering community where learning, experimentation and continuous improvement are championed. With 10% protected learning time, supportive onboarding and exposure to high‑impact cloud technologies, you’ll have opportunities to influence tooling used across the entire BBC. You’ll work with diverse teams, tackle complex large‑scale challenges and help drive a culture that values inclusion, growth and purpose—knowing your work enables products used by audiences worldwide. Your Key Responsibilities And Impact Build, enhance and maintain platform tooling that enables secure, scalable and automated cloud operations across the BBC’s AWS estate. Collaborate within an agile team to design and deliver solutions that support hundreds of AWS accounts and thousands of internal users. Automate the lifecycle of AWS accounts with pre-configured security postures and guardrails. Develop tools that identify cloud risks and surface insights through centralised online platforms. Contribute to the creation and evolution of BBC‑tailored cloud platform products for engineering teams across the organisation. Essential Criteria YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Strong experience with compute environments such as AWS Lambda, containers and EC2. Solid understanding of AWS networking and service discovery solutions. Demonstrable DevOps approach to building, deploying and maintaining services. Proficiency in at least one core programming language: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or Java. Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally using CloudFormation. Desired But Not Required Current AWS certification. Broad appreciation of the wider AWS product ecosystem. Demonstrable experience writing, testing and documenting maintainable software within collaborative environments. Knowledge of Internet protocols. Understanding of software build and packaging mechanisms (package managers, dependency or repository management). Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk Redeployment The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr