13 hours ago
Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and help shape the future direction of BT’s Engineering Platform.
- Work hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform to deliver platform capabilities.
- Review code, designs, and engineering solutions for quality and alignment with standards.
- Lead technical discussions, guide engineers, and make key technical delivery decisions.
- Support platform integration, transition from technology partners, and collaboration with internal and third-party teams.
- Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers and provide technical assurance to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong experience in a Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or similar role.
- Hands-on AWS experience in large-scale production environments.
- Strong Kubernetes and Terraform experience, including Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
- Recent software engineering or development experience.
- Experience leading engineering delivery, making technical decisions, and reviewing code, designs, and engineering standards.
- Strong coaching, mentoring, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers or distributed engineering teams.
- Experience with internal developer platforms, GitLab, modern CI/CD tooling, Sonatype or similar software supply chain security tools, DevSecOps, enterprise transformation programmes, Agile delivery environments, and Jira is desirable.
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications are desirable.
Benefits
- 10% on-target annual bonus.
- 24/7 access to an online private GP for the employee and immediate family.
- Up to two weeks of paid carers leave.
- 18 weeks of maternity, paternity, and adoption leave at full pay followed by 8 weeks at half pay.
- Discounted EE and BT mobile and broadband products.
- Pension scheme with 5% employee contributions and 10% employer contributions.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
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About BT
BT Group builds and operates telecom networks and digital services for consumers, enterprises, and public‑sector clients, selling broadband, fixed-line voice, mobile (via EE), and managed network, cloud, and cyber security services. It is headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, with American depositary shares on the NYSE. BT also owns Openreach, which manages the UK’s fibre and copper access network used by multiple retail providers.