Senior Systems Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Broadcast and End User Technology Technology and Media Operations
LOCATION: London Energy centre/Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 64000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Plus London Weighting 5441

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Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Interview Process

As part of the selection process before being invited for the main interview shortlisted candidates will be invited to a technical test which involves interacting with a Linux shell to perform tasks on a virtual machine.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the Software and Systems Development team for BBC Monitoring. We create maintain and support web-based tools for our journalists. These encompass text editing and publication tools plus video capture and streaming tools.
BBC Monitoring funded by the license fee provides essential media insight to their customers with over 80 years of expertise. They analyse and interpret international media and geopolitics in more than 100 languages.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
As a Senior Systems Engineer youll help develop and maintain our web applications hosted on premises and AWS platforms. Youll be working with a strong community of innovative and enthusiastic people who love what they do to support the work of BBC Monitoring.
You will be part of a small cross-functional agile team bringing your own specialty collaborating and overlapping with others. You will have the opportunity to pick up and share new skills and ways of working.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Configuring Cobbler Ansible and Jenkins to automatically deploy the operating system and software to our infrastructure.

Collaborating with our software developers to secure our applications and infrastructure.

Using the Linux terminal/AWS Console to troubleshoot application issues using monitoring tools and logs.

Defining infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation and Ansible.

Taking responsibility for the upgrade backup monitoring and disaster recovery processes for our systems within the BBC approved processes.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
Proven expertise in securely operating and troubleshooting Linux systems ideally Rocky/Red Hat. This includes troubleshooting in the Linux terminal.

Hands on experience of deploying open source / proprietary web applications on a Linux platform using Cobbler Jenkins Ansible and CloudFormation.

Experience with on premises hardware servers including installation configuration firmware patching and remote management.

Experience of AWS cloud technologies e.g. CloudFormation CloudWatch S3 SQS Lambda and EC2.

Good understanding of key network technologies including TCP/IP QoS VLANs Multicast.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
Experience in at least one scripting language e.g. Python Groovy bash.

Experience of using software control systems e.g. Git.

Experience of working with databases. E.g. MySQL PostgreSQL and OpenSearch.

Experience of Video Streaming technologies. E.g. Multicast SRT HLS.

Some experience of working with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodologies.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.