Product Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Product Engineer

Location: Leeds – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £46,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop, improve and maintain tools that build, deploy, automate and streamline code management and the release and deployment process
• Interface with development and operations teams and demonstrate commitment to the success of project deliverables
• Proactively support issues related to infrastructure and application deployments
• Provide assurance and guidance on build and deployment best-practices and configuration management to development, test and production environments
• Be responsible for providing ongoing support, upgrade and maintenance for the technology components

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Good working knowledge of Linux, Networking and PKI

• Administration of source control systems (git)

• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the Atlassian suite

• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps, SRE

• Previous experience of software build practices, release and change management

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Global Engineering Platform team:

Our team owns and provides a global capability of engineering tools ‘as-a-service’. We serve users across many different parts of our business. We create value by providing the platform, service and knowledge that supports delivery and engineering teams in planning, building and deploying their products and solutions. We borrow forms and principles from Agile, DevOps and SRE to organise and manage ourselves and our work and are responsible for delivering consistent, sustainable and predictable service operations for our users, as well as the delivery of our own change and project work.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 3rd September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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