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Job Reference: 1310
Band: C
Salary: Up to £55,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London (one / two days per week in our office.)
Due to the hybrid nature of the teams, we require the successful candidate to be based in the above BBC office to work from the office one / two days per week.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
- 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
- Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
- Employee assistance and well-being programmes
- Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject.
Job Introduction
The Digital Distribution Monitoring team provide the core and shared observability and alerting systems for BBC Online. With record breaking audiences coming to the BBC to follow live Breaking News as well as events such as Glastonbury and Wimbledon, our services are essential to the performance and uptime of many products at the BBC, regardless of geography, technology and connectivity, spanning both internal data centres and cloud locations.
We’ve recently introduced InfluxDB based metrics collection, with Grafana for visualisation and Alerta for alerting, which works alongside custom solutions for active monitoring of the variety of pages and products that comprise the BBC’s Online presence.
When you join the BBC as a Mid Level DevOps Engineer, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced and the work you do matters. Your work will have an impact on our millions of audience users across the globe.
Quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to provide a quality experience for our users by building solid processes, following best practice and preventing issues and problems from occurring at an early stage. Therefore, we believe that being a Mid Lever DevOps Engineer is much more than just coding and building.
As an engineer in our team, every fortnight you’ll be able to spend 10% of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.
We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.
Interview Process
Interview process
- Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. 1.5 to 2 hours of scenario based coding exercise using Python paired with a technical assessor – No advanced preparation required.
- Virtual interview – approx. 1.5 to 2 hours of technical and values-based questions
Main Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer within the Monitoring team, you will have a role in shaping, refining and delivering the technical direction of the team, developing and representing our best practice with plenty of opportunity to bring your own experiences and ideas for the future roadmap, and to collaborate with other teams at the BBC.
You will be engaged in all aspects of SDLC, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. You will also be a passionate and experienced engineer with a background in either software or systems engineering ideally Devops and be keen to enhance your skills in a variety of both open source and commercial services and systems, including observability and Alerting services and systems. You will be helping to build, improve and support these services. This means working with AWS, API, Python, CI/ CD, influx, Grafana, test suites etc that support this effort.
We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout the organisation through active dissemination of knowledge, mentoring and inspiring other members of the Monitoring team.
You’re rigorous in the way you build, develop, test and support features and committed to making the product you’re helping to build the best it can possibly be.
If you’re passionate about systems / software quality, interested in working at large scale or critical services with a desire to support and improve them, have a willingness to learn and keep up to date with latest advancements and devops approaches, enjoy thinking outside the box and want to work in a high-performing team doing complex and critical work, then we should talk!
Are you the right candidate
Specific areas we are interested in terms of experience, familiarity, and expertise are:
- Knowledge of the software development and software testing lifecycles with reasonable experience in language Python.
- Experience in AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, ELB, NLB, Route53.
- Linux operating systems, primarily Redhat Linux and similar (CentOS, Rocky, Amazon Linux).
- Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment systems and practices - good knowledge of CI/CD & cloud technologies (such as AWS) to implement deployments and following best practices.
- Various types of testing including unit, acceptance, behavioural, integration, and load testing.
- Design, implementation, and support of large-scale projects, with critical infrastructure placement.
- Working in an Agile development environment
- Optional: Familiarity with our current technologies including: Telegraf, InfluxDB, Kapacitor, Alerta, Grafana, Consul, LibreNMS
- Optional: Solid domain knowledge of the different technologies required in each step of the chain for observability/ monitoring and alerting
- Optional: Network aspects such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, SNMP
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
