BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Company Name: BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Job Title: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Lead
Job Description: Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds

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.

Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Lead

Job Title: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Lead

Requisition ID: 121483

Location: Leeds (this is a 100% office based role due to the nature of the project)

Grade: GG10 - GG11

Referral Bonus: £5,000

Role Description

BAE Systems have been contracted to undertake the day to day operation of (and incremental improvement of) a dedicated Security Operations Centre (SOC) to support the defence of a major UK Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organisation. The networks protected are predominantly hosted in cloud platforms, with many hundred systems within these environments that must be protected. The customer is committed to development of this improved SOC to be a benchmark of best practice and excellence in reflection of the significant threat that the protected systems are subject to.

This role requires a minimum of DV clearance.

This role reports to the Service Delivery Manager.

The Role

You Will Be

Accountable for ensuring all relevant potential cyber threat and key vulnerabilities are detected, triaged and reported on daily
Accountable for all regular reporting and ensuring the efficient delivery of all threat intelligence and vulnerability products by their respective deadlines
Where there is not established schedule for a product the lead is responsible for ensuring that an achievable deadline is set and the work is fairly tasked out
Responsible and accountable for the selection of key threat actors that pose the greatest risk to the client
Responsible for the development and continuous review of Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), a tailored collection plan and implementation of both to ensure that the intelligence products are relevant to the client’s interests
Accountable for the quality of all Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Reports, ensuring that when a product is delivered it is at the highest possible standard
Accountable for ensuring that all relevant process are effectively documented and regularly reviewed
Responsible for providing well-reasoned and sound analysis, context and predictions into the relevant deliverables
Accountable for assessing the maturity of the established functions within the client and identifying areas for improvement, productising those improvements and delivering them
Accountable for the personal development of all members of the Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability team
Responsible to ensuring that during times of reduced capacity that all ADHOC and regular products are completed and are at a sufficient quality for distribution
Requirements

Technical

5+ years’ experience in threat intelligence, vulnerability management or conducting research and investigating cyber threats in a technical capacity
Experience in technical incident response and management
An expert understanding of current and emerging threats related to government and CNI
Excellent Open-Source research skills
Demonstrate a high level knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and the use of command line terminals
Demonstrate a high level knowledge of core networking concepts and technologies
Demonstrate a high level knowledge of and experience operating within cloud platforms

Non-Technical

Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or equivalent experience in a SOC/Threat Intelligence/Vulnerability Management field
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate the risk, potential impact and importance of detailed technical information to non-technical and senior stakeholders
Team player and adept at working in a multi-disciplinary and diverse team
Self-motivated and motivates others, keeping morale and performance high
Experienced team leader & line management experience

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

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.

Leeds, United Kingdom

On site

27-02-2025

Company Name: BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Job Title: SOC Analyst
Job Description: Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds

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: Junior SOC Analyst

Requisition ID: 121580

Location: Leeds

Grade: GG07 -GG08

BAE Systems have been contracted to undertake the day to day operation of (and incremental improvement of) a dedicated Security Operations Centre (SOC) to support the defence of a major UK CNI organisation. The networks protected are predominantly hosted in Azure and AWS cloud platforms, with many hundred systems within these environments that must be protected. The customer is committed to development of this improved SOC to be a benchmark of best practice and excellence in reflection of the significant threat that the protected systems are subject to.

The SOC will be staffed by a blend of customer and BAE Systems staff, based in multiple locations, but with the day to day operations based from our Leeds office (due to the need for customer network access available at this location).

The SOC Analyst roles are ‘hands-on’ shift based roles, working as part of a 24/7 operation with four shift teams working in a standard rotation. They are responsible for utilising the SOC’s SIEM and SOAR toolsets to detect and investigate potential Security and Service Incidents occurring within the monitored networks.

These roles require a minimum of SC clearance and be prepared to undergo DV clearance. Due to timelines for the start of operations, it will not be possible to sponsor new clearances so candidates must have existing clearances.

Responsibilities

Monitor, triage, analyse and investigate alerts, log data and network traffic using the Protective Monitoring platform and Internet resources to identify cyber-attacks / security incidents.
Categorise all suspected incidents in line with the Security Incident policy
Recognise potential, successful and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises through reviews and further analysis of relevant event detail and incident summary information.
Write up high quality security incident tickets using a combination of existing knowledge resources and independent research.
Assist with remediation activities (or support customer stakeholders) to inhibit cyber-attacks, clean up IT systems and secure networks against repeat attacks.
Produce security incident review reports to present information about the security incident and provide security improvement recommendations based on the security incident review.
Understand Threat Intelligence and its use in an operational environment
Support incident response to national scale incidents in a coaching capacity
Work with other teams within BAE to improve services on the basis of customer needs.

Requirements

Technical

Basic Python and/or scripting skills, Windows, OS X, and Linux
Experience using Splunk and Sentinal
Working with a range of security tooling/technology
Strong understanding of security architecture, in particular networking
Detailed understanding of threat intelligence and threat actors, TTPs and operationalising threat intelligence.
Experience in investigating complex network intrusions (by state-sponsored groups or targeted ransomware attacks).
Understand TCP/IP component layers to identify normal and abnormal traffic
Understanding of AWS &/or Azure cloud services
Experience of Splunk (with ES) &/or Sentinel, content development experience desirable

Non-technical

Client side consulting, including stakeholder engagement and the ability to communicate insights and concepts to others (including briefing skills and report writing)
Security process development
Able to understand and adapt to different cultures and hierarchical structures.
Self-starter and capable of independent working

Desirable

Software engineering experience
Penetration testing skills

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.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Hybrid

11-03-2025

Company Name: BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Job Title: AWS Solution Architect
Job Description: 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: AWS Solution Architect

Requisition ID: 121529

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

Grade: GG11 - GG13

Referral Bonus: £5,000

As an AWS Solution Architect you will be working with our customers to define and architect the functional blocks of AWS to support their Cloud adoption journey and beyond.

This is a key role working closely with the customer. You will elicit customer requirements for cloud adoption and Cloud-native architectures, understanding the current eco system and how the cloud migration will fit into this. The role will define patterns and services that are required for a successful migration to AWS, and assurance that the migration is well architected.c

A key aspect of the role will be to endorse, support and maintain re-usable patterns for migration that will be built by the teams, utilising infrastructure as code so that future deployments can be delivered through automation and code reuse.

It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

Core Duties

Take on the technical lead role in migration enablement work.
Work with the community of development teams, to deliver migration services using, common code, standards and artefact format and proactively drive collaboration, particularly where there are service dependencies
Define and document AWS architecture for migration (baseline, target, roadmap, patterns, standards, reference architectures, etc), supporting a wide range of use cases
Run architectural reviews of the platform at appropriate intervals to take best advantage of vendor technologies
Pro-actively define, optimize, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration
Support engineering teams in optimizing the migration path
Escalation point for engineering teams in troubleshooting and incident management
Driving the adoption of automation in the platform, using common methods with other platforms
Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re-use and support users across the world

About You

You will have experience in many of the following:

Cloud Migration experience
Experience in Cloud Platform Architecture with AWS, defining cloud reference Architectures and Cloud Patterns in a large multi-account AWS estate
Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues. Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
Experience with various DevOps tools and CI/CD tools
Experience in AWS Security services and Network Services
Experience with working within an Agile framework
Good understanding of AWS security concepts and the goals of cyber security
Good communication skills both verbal and written
Motivating the team to use new tools to improve efficiency and breaking barriers to set new standards.

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

Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, AWS Speciality domains (Security, Advanced Networking)
A scaled agile framework certification, such as SAFe or Scrum@Scale
Managing stakeholders, including users and management
Mentoring junior engineers and nurturing their passion for engineering

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, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and 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 ...

London, United Kingdom

On site

12-03-2025

Company Name: BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Job Title: AWS Platform Engineer
Job Description: 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: AWS Platform Engineer

Requisition ID: 121526

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

Grade: GG09 - GG11

Referral Bonus: £5,000

Job Description

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced AWS Developer.

As a key member of a Cloud Platform Team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to build core mission applications. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.

We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Cloud Academy and Pluralsight.

It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About You

You will have experience in many of the following:

Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues; Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
Demonstrable expertise designing and building with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM
Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python
A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc
Strong understand of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, FinOps
Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce
Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies
Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)

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

AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or DevOps
Coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language
Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc
Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes
Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks

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, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and 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, APA...

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