Gemini Evolution, Environment Specialist

Recruiter: Daniel McCarthy 

Career Grade: D 

Internal Closing Date: 17/1/25
Location: Ipswich, Birmingham or London, with regular travel to Ipswich. 

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

Why this job matters
The Converged Core network is at the heart of BT and supports everything we do. The network underpins major infrastructure, such as the emergency services network and national air traffic services. It supports 70% of the UKs mobile network and 40% of the UK’s broadband network
With a strong background in TCP/IP the Environment Specialist has a good technical understanding of the respective platforms/services consuming the Gemini Environment Models ( IP Core, Connectivity, Mobile, Access, Global, IPP) .  As a subject matter expert they offer consultancy support and technical guidance to ensure the smooth delivery and implementation of all Model build work and are called upon to offer technical upskilling and mentoring to the wider team.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

• Accountable for the implementation of Network Infrastructure including evaluating, understanding and scoping the network to be implemented
• Liaison for the Model Implementation team to ensure all build work is understood from a technical perspective
• Works with the Environment Architect, provides support and input into the Environment and Model Strategy ensuring technical requirements from Platform teams are understood and shared.
• Provides technical consultancy for teams looking to transition models/labs into Gemini as part of the Adastral Park Strategy
• Responsible for ensuring all Environment Models are built and configured according to organisational guidelines and technical requirements
• Participates in technology lifecycle planning, including contributing to the development of Model technology roadmaps and Network Health Assessments.
• Provides technical guidance to support Gemini Room/Model consolidation
• Acts as a technical mentor to the wider team helping to improve the teams abilities by acting as a Technical Champion
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with the team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Network Engineering
• Provides technical quality assurance over work of other engineers through matrix team structure.
• Delivers resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to the business
• Financial awareness of Platform v Project spend and demand

The skills you’ll need to succeed

• Be agile - You identify opportunities to use collaborative approaches and continuous improvement. You contribute to projects as a subject matter expert or content owner.
• Give specialised advice - You offer expert advice and recommendations in your areas of subject expertise.
• Technology excellence - You build and apply insight about emerging technology to develop and deliver new digital solutions. You break complex information down into understandable language. 
• Product and service knowledge - You demonstrate subject matter expertise in complex, technical infrastructure, products and services. You develop bespoke solutions to meet short, medium and long-term customer needs.
• Technical issue management - You conduct a deep review of data and issues to quickly reveal the root cause. You recommend short and long-term solutions to complex problems and follow through to make sure we solve them.
• Improvement focus - You coach and empower teams to anticipate and analyse obstacles in work processes. You support them to develop solutions and implement ways to improve processes and make things more efficient.
• Certified deep technical knowledge - Of network and server infrastructure, components and configuration, including and not exhaustive; Nokia, Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Adva, 
• Vendor accredited within TCP/IP Networks – e.g. CCNA/CCNP/NRS1/JNCIA
• Member of a professional body e.g. Institution of Engineering and Technology

Experience you’d be expected to have

• Strong technical experience working on IP Networks with a demonstratable understanding across a range of platforms & services – IP Core, Mobile, Global, Mobile, Network Cloud, Connectivity
• You've moved outside of expected process or practice to suit the needs of a customer, colleague or client.
• Vendor accredited within TCP/IP Networks – CCNA/CCNP/NRS1/JNCIA, etc…
• You've worked with people from other business locations or functions to bring about a collaborative approach to Testing.
• Appreciation of Network Testing Toolsets and vendor offerings
• You've actively participated in strategy setting sessions
• You've influenced a technical team how to do their roles more effectively.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.