What you’ll be doing
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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.
7. Cloud engineering: Proficient in developing Terraform, Ansible, and Python in a cloud environment with an emphasis on developing robust, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure.
8. Design and development: hands on design, build, maintenance and development of a Kubernetes managed service.
9. Networking: Working knowledge of IP networking, routing, switching, and firewall principles and protocols. Experience with SDN, DPDK and SR-IOV would be a plus.
10. Security tools and practices: Configuration of PKI, certificates, HashiCorp Vault, and software supply chain security, in the context of cloud and Kubernetes environments.
11. 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
12. Strong Linux OS experience
13. Worked in on‑prem or private cloud environments
14. Hands-on Kubernetes experience (using K8s, not necessarily running the control plane)
15. Experience with at least one automation/IaC tool (Terraform or Ansible ideal)
16. Strong networking fundamentals
Nice to have
17. Experience with OpenStack
18. Bare-metal provisioning
19. Experience with Rancher/RKE2, or other on-prem K8s flavours
20. CI/CD tooling
21. Scripting in Python/Golang
22. GitOps concepts
23. Telco networking technologies (SR‑IOV, DPDK)
Benefits
24. On target 10% on target bonus
25. BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
26. 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.
27. Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
28. 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
29. 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
30. 2 weeks carer’s leave
31. World-class training and development opportunities
32. Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.