Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

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: Systems Administrator
Requisition ID: 120884
Location: London or West Country in one of the customer's sites (4 days per week on site essential, 5 days per week on site preferred)
Grade: GG09 – GG11
Referral Bonus: £5,000

About the role
We are looking for a Systems Administrator to join our Digital Defence Services team following continuous growth and success. Within Digital Defence Services, we are a critical partner to the UK Ministry of Defence in their adoption of secure digital solutions that enable multi-domain integration and data exploitation, which provides the advantage to those who serve and protect us.  
Positioned within a thriving Digital Defence Services Business Unit and part of a wider vibrant Security Consulting Community from across other Sectors, you will be supported in the role and have opportunity learn and develop, with clear pathways defined for your career progression in the organisation.

About you
You will have experience in many of the following:

• Be familiar with operating and maintaining both Microsoft Windows Server and RedHat Linux
• Generate and maintain support logs detailing patching status, 3rd party dependencies, root-cause-analysis outcomes
• Build and maintain server support and monitoring technologies such as Grafana
• Experience working with other industry partners, and technical and non-technical customers
• Generate and maintain detailed documentation and how-to-guides for the BAE services
• Understanding of server-side certificates, Kerberos/Keycloak, MS Active Directory, and such authentication
• Familiarity with the core technologies used on-site, namely ElasticSearch, NiFi, Kibana, MS SQL server (Desirable)

Due to the nature of our business and requirements in this role you must:

• Hold an MoD/Partner DV 
• Be a UK National (Essential)
• Be able to work on-site (London or West Country) in one of the customer's sites (4 days per week, Essential, 5 days per week, Preferred)
   

How we will support you
Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.  These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.
 

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.

This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000

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: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.