Senior Software Engineer

4 days ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom BAE Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Location(s): 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
 

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: London or Leeds
Grade: GG10 - GG12

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements –please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Required skills and experience

  • Experience of designing, implementing and optimising scalable Elasticsearch/Opensearch clusters.
  • Understanding of and experience with advising on and implementing indexing strategies, mappings, and queries for performance.
  • Understanding of high availability and fault tolerance of ElasticSeach/OpenSearch clusters.
  • Understanding of cluster performance tuning, shard management and performance monitoring/alerting.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with developers and data engineers to support java based microservice access to Elastic/Opensearch.
  • Experience of rightsizing ElasticSearch/OpenSearch clusters provided by AWS managed services

Ideally have one or more of

  • Experience in integrating ElasticSearch/OpenSearch into Java/Spring Boot/Kubernetes/Python applications
  • Experience in data ingestion tools and data processing pipelines using Apache Kafka
  • Designing and optimising SQL queries for Postgres RDBMS (even better if in and AWS RDS environment)

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 well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital 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.

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. 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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