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
* On target 10% on target bonus
* BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
* 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.
* Enhanced women’s health support : including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
* 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
* 24 / 7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
* 2 weeks carer’s leave
* World‑class training and development opportunities
* Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
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