Job Details

Job title

Network Engineering Specialist

Reports to (job)

Senior Converged Technology Manager

Why BT Group?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; we connect for good.   You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company.  At our heart, we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones, and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - the values we live by. Creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale, capable of achieving great things.  From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe, and secure, to delivering large scale innovative technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. 

Today, in this fast changing, always on, digital world, our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before.  So if you have the drive, optimism, and resilience to help propel us forward, we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things, and pursue new careers.  If that’s you, and what you’re looking for. 

We’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

The purpose of this role is to lead on design and test activities within BT International.

The purpose of the Network Engineering Specialist role is to deliver network designs for BT International network platforms and/or customer solutions.  Specifically, this role is accountable for:

• Driving efficiency and scalability through the re-use of IP Internet/VPN network designs and ongoing in-life operation of designs across the overall BT International network platforms and/or customer solution.
• Typically leading a matrix (virtual) team of technical experts/contractors to deliver network design solutions and provide technical thought leadership to a larger matrix team. The sphere of influence for the matrix team will be from a technical perspective.
• Acting as a technical ambassador for the company and providing expert technical consulting to customers at a platform and/or overall solution level.
• Deciding on design scope and design of the overall BT International network platforms and/or customer solution.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

The skills you’ll need to succeed

The purpose of the Network Engineering Specialist engineer role is to lead the design of IP Internet/VPN technologies. Specifically, this role is accountable for:

• Design accountability for new features into T International’s network platforms.
• Provide thought leadership to senior internal stakeholders and customers regarding aspects of Global Reach platforms and/or customer solutions.
• Point of contact for technical expertise to senior stakeholders, internal and external.
• Mentor and share knowledge with others and be an advanced user of design tools. 
• Create and develop architecture patterns and design techniques for BT and/or customers.
• Lead on resolving customer impacting issues regarding the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
• Solve problems that tend to arise from the interaction of multiple components and usually are complex and unknown related to the overall IP Internet/VPN platform and/or customer solution and involve vendor interworking issues.
• Raise and resolve implementation issues with suppliers and other designers.
• Resolve in-life issues to overall network platform and/or customer solution, as appropriate.
• Lead a matrix team as appropriate within BT International.
• Estimate the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables with increasing cost impact and time duration.
• Drive transformation specifically in terms of automation,

• Specialist knowledge of IP/VPN technologies and vendors (Cisco/Juniper)
• Specialist knowledge of relevant emerging network/software technologies.
• Experience of leading matrix teams to deliver network designs and testing.
• Software development skills specifically in solving network issues / activities.
• Experience in resolution of customer impacting network issues.
• Prior experience of designing network solutions in a service provider setting.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Gitlab is essential.
• Working knowledge of automation test frameworks such as Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and/or Robot Framework is desirable.
• Hand-on demonstratable experience with core routing technologies (IS-IS, BGP, BGP-LS, SR-TE, SR IGP, PCEP, MPLS-VPNs)
• Understanding  and hand-on experience with Quality of Service (QoS).
• Expertise in developing frameworks for and automating test cases for systems in production
• Experience with data modelling with Yang (with a vendor neutral landscape in mind)
• Solid experience with gRPC, JSON.

Typical Certifications/Accreditations Attained or working towards include:

Member of a professional body e.g. Institution of Engineering and Technology

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and/or Cisco DevNet Professional or equivalent experience.

Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA) or equivalent

PCET - Certified Entry Level Tester with Python

PCEP - Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Robot Framework Certified Professional (RFCP) or equivalent

Leadership accountabilities

Experience you’d be expected to have

Leadership accountabilities of the job.

• Managing mixed discipline matrix teams and technical engineers.
• Ensure learning and personal development are a core part of work.
• Role model the leadership behaviors as set out in the connected leaders framework
• Work with pride, honesty and integrity

• Leader of matrix technology team.
• Delivery of IP network design
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead / coach teams to change and develop an innovative, challenging, and supportive team culture.