DevOps Engineer

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios, Engineering team

LOCATION: London – TVC

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £53,000 - £59,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441.

We are BBC Studios, a globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This will be a hybrid working role spending time at the office vs home. The DevOps Engineer role is a Software Engineering role, with a DevOps specialisation. It involves building and looking after infrastructure, as well as automating the systems, which enable the efficient delivery of our products and components. It will include maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, automations, managing cloud infrastructure (AWS), and ensuring everything is scalable, secure and monitored. There will be a lot of collaboration across the team(s), and with other DevOps Engineers, to help reduce and remove bottlenecks, and to increase the speed and cadence of deliveries.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This role sits within the bbc.com worldwide team, focused on delivering solutions and content for our global (non-UK) audience. The platform is supported by three teams: front-end, CMS/tooling, and back-end systems. We are currently undergoing a transformation to strengthen our agile and engineering practices, with a constant drive to improve. The team is known for being friendly, open, and supportive.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to enable fast, reliable, and secure deployment workflows.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for consistent, scalable environments across all stages.
• Provision and manage infrastructure on AWS, including but not limited to: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, IAM, VPCs, and networking configurations.
• Automate deployment processes for cloud-native applications and services.
• Implement observability practices—logging, metrics, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Ensure security and compliance through secrets management, access control, and network configuration.
• Collaborate with Developers/QA and product and maintain documentation, supporting incident response and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and optimise the performance, reliability, and scalability of production systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure, pipelines, and operational runbooks and support incident response and post-incident reviews, helping teams learn and improve.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Hands-on experience with Terraform and strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Expertise in CI/CD practices, including GitHub Actions, Git workflows, and automation tools.
• Proven ability to operate and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Operational experience with modern observability tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and CloudWatch.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, and Node.js for automation and tooling.
• Good technical knowledge across cloud, automation, and infrastructure domains.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Experience working in Agile environments, e.g. Scrum, Kanban.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Information at a Glance

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC Studios includes a flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days. Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions). Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.

BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss.