Kubernetes Platform Engineer (New Bailey, Manchester, United Kingdom)
Why this job matters
Our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted connector of people, devices, and machines. BT Networks plays a key role in this ambition, and many of our core network features and functions are moving to cloud, taking advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and collaborative benefits of cloud. Kubernetes is a key component of our strategy in this area.
This role is hybrid (3 days in office) & can be based in either Manchester or London
What you’ll be doing
* Design and development: Working closely with an agile development team of Kubernetes engineers to co-design and develop a Kubernetes managed service for telco functions within a high security private cloud environment.
* Automation: Automating cluster deployment, scaling, and management using infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration tools. Collaborating with development teams on infrastructure deployment best practices, encompassing CI/CD pipelines and related frameworks such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
* Operations: Utilising a DevOps approach, providing documentation and incident escalation support to operations teams to facilitate brilliant in life service and incident management of the Kubernetes managed service.
* Integration: Building a deep understanding of varied software spanning security, logging, monitoring, cloud infrastructure, networks, and how best to integrate these into a cohesive platform solution.
* Innovation and Evaluation: Contributing to the exploration of cutting-edge technologies through the deployment of new technology proof-of-concept projects related to Kubernetes, participation in their assessment, and development into an in-life service.
Skills Required for the Role
* Communication: Adept communicator facilitating effective collaboration within and across engineering and delivery teams, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Cloud engineering: Proficient in developing Terraform, Ansible, and Python in a cloud environment with an emphasis on developing robust, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure.
* Design and development: hands on design, build, maintenance and development of a Kubernetes managed service.
* Networking: Working knowledge of IP networking, routing, switching, and firewall principles and protocols. Experience with SDN, DPDK and SR-IOV would be a plus.
* Security tools and practices: Configuration of PKI, certificates, HashiCorp Vault, and software supply chain security, in the context of cloud and Kubernetes environments.
* CI/CD: Expertise in integrating with a GitOps workflow, employing infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices. Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent, automated deployments.
Experience Required for the Role
Mandatory
* 5+ years’ experience of Networks Infrastructure IT with a focus on networking ( IP networking, routing, switching, and firewall principles and protocols)
* 3 years Kubernetes experience, at least 1 year managing Kubernetes infrastructure and with varied Kubernetes distributions.
* Development experience with, but not limited to Terraform, Metal3, KAPI (ideally), Ansible, Python, Golang
* Have worked with Ubuntu Linux on virtual and physical servers
* Experience with on prem Kubernetes distributions (e.g RKE2, Openshift etc)
* Metal3 and CAPI experience.
Nice to have
* Private cloud (particularly OpenStack) experience desirable but not essential
Benefits
1. On target 10% on target bonus
2. BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
3. From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
4. Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
5. 25 days annual leave (not including