NSL – Database Administrator

Job Description

Location(s): 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 Description

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge cloud technologies and motivated to deliver innovative solutions to complex challenges that help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with deep expertise in AWS database services.

As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you’ll design, build, and maintain secure, resilient, and highly available database platforms that underpin mission-critical systems for our National Security customers. These platforms are the backbone for applications that protect the UK, and you’ll play a vital role in ensuring they are cloud-optimized, performant, and compliant.

You’ll work in empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with engineering and end-users to design, deploy, and support database solutions across AWS and hybrid environments. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and will have the opportunity to work across a range of customer projects. You’ll have ownership and responsibility for your solutions while being part of a wider engineering community that supports your growth.

We fully embrace DevOps and Cloud-first principles, so we value engineers who enjoy working across the full delivery lifecycle and are eager to learn new technologies. You’ll help define and implement best practices for AWS-native database services, ensuring security, scalability, and automation are at the heart of everything we deliver.

It’s an exciting time to join us and shape our customers’ cloud journey. Your work will make a direct impact on systems that matter—and you’ll do it for an organisation that makes a huge impact on the security of the UK.

About you

You will have hands-on experience in many of the following:

• AWS Database Services: Deep expertise in Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and Aurora, including provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, and performance tuning.
• AWS Native Capabilities: Experience with backup and recovery strategies using AWS tools, automated failover, multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, and monitoring via CloudWatch.
• Security and Compliance: Implementing IAM roles, encryption (KMS), auditing, and patching in AWS environments.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Using Terraform or CloudFormation to provision and manage database resources.
• Performance Optimization: Query tuning, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting in cloud environments.
• Scripting: Strong skills in Python, Bash, or Shell for automation and operational tasks.
• Operating Systems: Working knowledge of Linux and Windows.
• Communication and Problem-Solving: Ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to new technologies.
• Agile Delivery: Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for database deployments (Jenkins, Bamboo).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Database – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, or Oracle OCP

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

How we will support you

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
• As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office
• You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• 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
• You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
• 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

About our team

Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA.

For more information please visit our website:
https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/uk-businesses/digital-intelligence/markets/national-security-and-law-enforcement

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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.