Overview

Position Title: Junior Systems Engineer

Company: BBC

Location: Northampton, UK

Job Description:

The team ensures your and the rest of UK population’s experience of BBC web products is never compromised and you have a wow experience of BBC online every time. The team is responsible for the development of in-house tools, dashboards, products and 3rd party solutions.

These tools as well as being used by product teams that develop iPlayer, bbc.co.uk, News, Sport, Weather and Broadcast Engineering are used by our 24 * 7 NOC team. The team works in a dynamic fashion with opportunities to innovate during regular hack days and was recently singled out for “Innovator of the Year Award” from a list of 60 well-known industry leaders.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, engineer/develop & release applications and systems using best practices
  • Help improve engineering process and standard and so contribute to a team culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Build excellently engineered, high availability solutions to handle huge volumes of traffic.
  • Champion new technologies and approaches to ensure BBC products remain world class and adapt to change
  • Work closely with our operational support teams to ensure our solutions our supportable, scalable, HA and reliable. Ensure technical quality meets the needs for a fast, reliable, always-on service.
  • Writing unit, integration, end-to-end, and visual regression tests, taking a test-driven approach to code and systems quality
  • Promote collaborative working, skills and knowledge sharing together with pairing
  • Engineering using agile practices

Requirements:

  • Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
  • Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
  • Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
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