1 hour ago
Birmingham, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive the Professional Services automation strategy and roadmap for managed applications, including lifecycle, end-of-service-life, compute, and business continuity planning.
- Manage compute infrastructure hosts, including patching and security vulnerability management.
- Build network automation frameworks and deployment pipelines for testing, building, and releasing automated processes.
- Identify and deliver driverless-change use cases and promote SRE practices across the Professional Services team.
- Act as technical lead for incidents, contribute to post-incident reviews, and develop solutions.
- Provide subject matter expertise on TSA guidelines and influence compliant working practices.
- Deliver complex network changes and provide assurance for fixed network platforms.
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills with coding best practices, testing, peer reviews, and experience with GitLab or Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible and container technologies such as Docker or Podman.
- Solid understanding of networking and web/API fundamentals.
- Strong understanding of IP/MPLS networks and experience building CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building Ansible repositories from the ground up for large-scale deployments.
- Knowledge of container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
- Experience in a production telecommunications environment and introducing new services or products into operational teams.
- Strong Linux and Windows system administration skills, with emphasis on performance optimization, security, and automation.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing and best practices.
- Ability to communicate confidently with stakeholders at all levels and perform effectively in high-pressure environments.
- Relevant background as a network engineer with automation experience, an infrastructure engineer moving into networking, or a software engineer expanding into network engineering.
Benefits
- Three days per week in the office and two days per week working from home.
- 10% on-target annual bonus.
- 24/7 online private GP access for the employee and immediate family.
- Up to two weeks of paid carers leave.
- Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave with 18 weeks at full pay and 8 weeks at half pay.
- Discounted EE and BT mobile and broadband products.
- Market-leading pension scheme with 5% employee and 10% employer contributions.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Optional healthcare, dental, gym memberships, and other additional benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About BT
We’re one of the world’s leading communications services companies. At BT Group, the solutions we sell are integral to modern life. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. There are no limits to what people can do when they connect. And as technology changes our world, connections are becoming even more important to everyday life. Today, that’s truer than ever. The connections we make are helping solve the world’s biggest challenges such as the global pandemic, climate change and cyber security. Through the power of technology, we’re supporting customers to live, work and play together better.