Software Automation Engineer at BAE Systems, London Area, £Contract Rate

Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Automation

Location: New Malden

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing technical leadership by taking ownership of complex automation solutions, engaging with stakeholders and end users.
• Review and debug of complex automation scripts
• Provide specialist knowledge and subject matter expertise to members of other teams
• Provision of support and oversight for the work of other team members
• Design solutions for deploying and configuring software and systems
• Develop and maintain software relating to automation of system build and deployment
• Perform investigations and identify appropriate solutions to emerging issues
• Answer technical queries about his/her own work and supply technical support and expertise to others as required
• Keep up to date in relevant technologies

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working with large complex systems, ideally in the naval sector
• Background in software engineering
• PowerShell or C#
• VM Ware and virtualisation techniques

Desirable:

• Techniques for automation of installation and deployment software
• Experience of strong configuration management practices

The Install team:

The Install team develop and maintain scripts and applications which enable the packaging and installation of software builds relating to a number of naval combat system products. The purpose of this role is to design, develop and maintain the installation framework, applications and application specific installation solutions.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.