IT DevOps Manager

Job Title: IT Devops Manager

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of developers, functional consultants, and technical staff

Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of development projects

Coordinate and communicate with stakeholders to define requirements, priorities, timelines and status

Establish and maintain coding standards, development best practices, and technical guidelines

Ensure systems are suitable with our environment working with the Enterprise/Data and Solution architects ensuring compliant with cyber security standards

Keep abreast of emerging technologies and recommend adoption where beneficial. Encourage a culture of innovation, learning, and collaboration

You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Knowledge of key applications, Oracle ERP, Siemens Teamcenter Unified, MSBI, Manufacturing Execution Systems

Understanding of cyber security principles and compliance standards

Demonstrable experience in software development, including working in a leadership role

Strong knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC), Agile, and DevOps practices

Excellent leadership, team-building, and interpersonal skills

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 DevOps team:

Reporting to the Head of IT, you will lead a talented team of Oracle Functional Consultants, Oracle Developers and Microsoft Technology Developers. You’ll be responsible for day-to-day operations, managing resources, scheduling work and ensuring successful project delivery, all while maintaining strict security compliance. This is an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team as we move towards cloud technologies and drive innovation across the organisation.

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: 22nd October 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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