Platform Engineering Professional

Platform Engineering Professional - LMA

Why this job matters

The Software Engineering Professional supports the execution of the software engineering strategy and roadmap that supports BT's commercial strategy through cross functional project and technical delivery and the participation of a team that pursues innovation as well as engineering excellence.

What you'll be doing

• Role develops software and technical solution for the LMA area in the following domain ;
  Logs Monitoring
  Alarms
  Health Monitoring
  Traffic Monitoring
  Automation
  Containrisation
  Scripting
• Role involves developing and delivering software solutions through automation across self (UK networks/IT).
• Ability to do deep dive on technical areas and get the best outcome out of technically challenging situations.
• Able to get hands on and lead the vendor technical teams for BAU and Transformation delivery
• Understand the telecom domain well enough to act as domain and technical focal point
• Understand need of multiple projects and communicate them divisionally and/or cross-divisionally
• Contribute to the definition of the team processes and standards
• Manage concurrent application releases and small engineering teams to deliver quality software releases on time.
  Knowledge to deliver in Agile Methodologies.
• Drive strong engineering practices in the team
• Ability to debug complex issues and provide the right solution

Required for the job

• Lead design and development teams in Fault Monitoring, Performance Management and Configuration Management in Network Management and Service Assurance Domain.
• Knowledge of network monitoring protocols primarily SNMP, Syslog.
• Expertise on vendor tools Nagios/NRPE, Kafka, Juju charms, Prometheus/telegraf/collectd, fiebeat, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graylog, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, proxy or any other opensource tools to monitor system health, performance, and availability.
• Automation of change, deployment, application checkouts and associated tooling - Ansible and Jenkins
  Exposure to UNIX/Linux Shell Scripting, Python scripting, REST APIs.
• Expert in Linux system handling.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and experience in designing and developing API endpoints.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, protocols, and technologies is a plus.
• Expert in containerization tools like Docker and desirable knowledge of orchestration platform such as Kubernetes (K8s).
• Basic knowledge on RDBMS and Nosql databases
• Knowledge of ITIL practices desirable.

The skills you'll need TroubleshootingAgile DevelopmentDatabase Design/DevelopmentDebuggingProgramming/ScriptingMicroservices/Service Oriented ArchitectureVersion ControlIT SecurityCloud ComputingContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & OrchestrationSoftware TestingApplication DevelopmentAlgorithm DesignSoftware Development LifecycleDecision MakingGrowth MindsetInclusive Leadership

About us

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

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.

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