Posting Date: 3 Jan 2025
Function: Cloud
Unit: Networks
Location: 1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with Great Benefits
The Mobile Cloud Team designs and onboard mobile infrastructure and applications for Mobile Voice and Data services for all mobile brands, ensuring we provide the best customer experience. We drive and own the technical delivery of new tenants onto our multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring that new tenants are onboarded efficiently and in a compliant manner. We drive mobile cloud-related architecture and technology decisions, ensuring that it is supportable and fit for purpose, paying close attention to Emergency Services Network requirements and the new virtualised/containerised core networks. Continuously optimising our tenants dimensioning on BT’s infra to ensure we meet our year-on-year efficiency targets for reducing our carbon footprint.
This role can be based in any of the following locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol & follows hybrid working (3 days in the office, 2 days from home)
What you’ll be doing
* Virtualisation Networking design and onboarding, focusing on OVS Openstack, NSX VMware, OpenShift SDN, RKE2 Kubernetes based deployments.
* Driving deployment quality through regular retrospectives and feedback from operations.
* Coordinating with Mobile Release management.
* Building key relationships with stakeholders in Operations, Lab and other design teams.
* Responsible for ensuring designs are security compliant by using a security-first approach.
* Proactively ensuring that designs are in place to protect against failures, ensure resilience, backup, and contingency measures.
* Ensuring all designs and deployments are in line with company policies, procedures, and best practices.
* Owning and managing stakeholder relationships that have a direct impact on the design excellence within your area for suppliers and managed service partners, i.e., BT Security, 3rd party vendors, and operations.
* Developing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers ensuring that these can be drawn upon effectively.
Skills Required for the Role
* Openstack, VMware, Redhat Hypervisor architecture and networking expert knowledge.
* Mobile IP Networking expert knowledge.
* F5 (BIG-IP) design and implementation skills.
* NSX Firewall design and implementation skills.
* Infrastructure as code skillset, including GitOps, Ansible, Python, Jenkins.
* Knowledge and practical experience for delivering products and services via Agile delivery methodologies.
* Jira project and Confluence experience.
* Multifaceted negotiation techniques for influencing and convincing other teams to change in technology and methodologies.
* Mature interpersonal skills for building, maintaining, and leveraging business relationships both internally and externally to BT.
* Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and company policy in respect to TSA as well as Health and Safety.
Experience Required for the Role
* Subject matter expert in virtualised networking and containerised infrastructure design and deployment.
* Expert knowledge of OVS Openstack, NSX VMware, OpenShift SDN, RKE2 Kubernetes based deployments.
* Expert knowledge of F5.
* Good understanding of Mobile Voice, Data, and subscriber management networks.
* Good understanding of aspects of network security.
* Experience of dealing with internal and external business customers, third party suppliers, and providing reliable communication between all parties.
* Ability to create and implement procedures to deliver best performance and reliable delivery.
At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.
* 10% on-target bonus.
* 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
* Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan.
* World-class training and development opportunities.
* Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
* Discounted broadband, mobile, and TV packages.
* Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop.
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 into tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, and 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.
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.
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.
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