About the Role:

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence we don't just project the enterprise from cyber threats, we protect entire nations. We are looking for driven and innovative big data engineers to join the team developing our national scale cyber security platform.

You will join the behavioural analytics team and will use cutting-edge technology to research, prototype, develop and engineer complex analytics, on incredibly large datasets, to identify anomalies, and detect and correlate threats across the cyber kill chain.

The behavioural analytics team works on both long-term development of the core product, as well as a data lab focussed research for specific clients, which involves rapidly spinning-up prototypes to serve immediate operational needs.

The role:

• To design, implement and test scalable and performant analytic pipelines - with guidance from a Data Scientist and Solution Architect.
• To contribute to the continuous improvement of the engineering processes and architecture for the analytics solution.
• To detect and analyse performance bottlenecks in new and existing solutions. To tune analytic implementations to cope with the solution scale - we ingest millions of events per second.
• To communicate and act on solution improvement ideas.
• To rapidly learn new technologies.

Your experience:

Knowledge of the following is essential

• Python, our code base is Python based

Knowledge of the following big data technologies would be extremely advantageous

• Spark / PySpark (all data analysis on a Spark cluster)
• HDFS (forms our persistence backbone)
• HBase / Elasticsearch databases (used to store entity data)
• Kafka(for messaging / subsystem buffering)

Knowledge of the following would be desirable but not essential

• Ansible (our solutions are installed using Ansible)
• Airflow/ Jupyter (for job control and one off tasks
• A JVM language e.g. Java / Scala
• Unix shell scripting (BASH for example)
• Data formats such as Parquet and Avro

Your reward:

• Work-life balance is important; you'll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefit package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• You can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
• Our flexible benefits package includes; private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You'll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• Don't know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career
• You'll be part of our bonus scheme

Security Clearance

Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance

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.

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 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.

Launched in 2022, Digital Intelligence is part of BAE Systems, and has a rich heritage in helping to defend nations and businesses around the world from advanced threats.

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.