Cloud Engineering Specialist

Why this job matters

Voice has always been a key part of our business and the transition to IP based solutions has opened up opportunities for changing how everyone interacts with their services. 

When you join us a Cloud Engineer you’ll have the opportunity to be a part of a team building these future services and helping to define how people consume these services. 

You’ll be able to use your skills to simplfy how our customers connect with each other.  

This role is required to fulfil the different requirements to be delivered in Voice platforms within specified deadlines and to satisfactory standards. This role is also necessary in order to achieve a successful integration with the rest of the components across the platform. 

What you’ll be doing

The role is for an enthusiastic, passionate cloud engineer responsible for taking BT forward. You’ll be expected to work closely with the development, design, ops and test teams to ensure that our services are delivered reliably. 

You’ll be: 

Taking care of deployments of infrastructure, networking, software packages, containers 

Automating deployments of the same 

Implementing up to date security practices 

Managing issue diagnosis and resolution of infrastructure, software, networking, etc. 

Working responsibly in a team to ensure that communication is kept at a high standard 

Spreading your experience and knowledge to junior team members. 

Wanting to learn new things and keen to bring the team onboard with new ideas. 

We’ll also need to see these on your CV

In depth knowledge of Linux, command line, server management, packages, issue diagnosis with hands on experience 

Good experience with TCP/IP, HTTP, SIP, DNS, and Linux tooling for debugging the same 

Comfortable with Bash/Python scripting 

Strong understanding of Git 

Automation of deployments through Ansible 

Infrastructure as Code experience through Terraform 

Strong cloud experience, preferably Azure 

Implementing network security, zero trust architecture, secret management, etc. 

Good exposure with container technologies: Docker/Containerd/Podman 

Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize 

GitOps tooling: FluxCD/ArgoCD 

CI/CD frameworks, e.g. Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins 

Exposure to Observability tooling, e.g. ELK stack, Prometheus 

Exposure to RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL 

Exposure to NoSQL, e.g. Redis, Cassandra 

Exposure to Service Discovery, e.g. Consul, etcd, ZooKeeper 

Exposure to Message Queues, e.g. Kafka, Redis 

Jira, Agile and Scrum 

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.