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BT Software Engineering Specialist in Manchester, United Kingdom
Software Engineering Specialist
Job Req ID: 38712
Posting Date: 11 Sep 2024
Function: Software Engineering
Unit: Networks
Location:
Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive + great benefits
All Locations: Manchester or Birmingham
Working Style: 3 days a week in office, 2 days anywhere
Why this job matters
The key purpose of this role is to take ownership/lead and build an automation pipeline for various projects in Monitoring and Assurance space. You will work independently with some guidance when needed and can contribute to pairing with other team members. To ensure enabling rapid business feature delivery through automation in design/dev/test and build processes. You will be an expert in building and running an containerised solution in Kubernetes.
You will have expertise in build and platform tools and also well verse in monitoring of applications.
Accountabilities
Supports the design and development of discreet solutions in line with wider microservices architecture and security standards, demonstrating basic understanding of how solution impacts the wider Technology roadmap for an application
Identifies and solves routine problems with components designed, performs deep dive data analysis, potentially introducing new components or features to resolve issues.
Conducts technical peer reviews within the organisation or with suppliers to ensure outputs align to quality standards and customer requirements.
Designs and develops automation of services with team, ensuring and documenting the quality of delivery
Contributes technical and analytical knowledge where needed to support managers, principals or technical experts to resolve issues during projects.
What you’ll be doing
Role to create technical solution for the SPM Area in the following domain ;
Tenant Onbaording
Network Orchestration of Tenant
Network Monitoring via Dashboard
Role involves delivering software solutions through automation across self (UK networks/IT) and Enterprise Autofix instances.
Experience designing & development of automation pipelines and containers (Ansible, Jenkins, ,Dockers, Kubernates)
Good hands on with designing & development in Linux, Shell and Python Scripting.
Ability to manage modern messaging queue (KAFKA)
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
Leading a team for getting a solution done
Mentoring team members
What you'll bring
Must Have:
Docker & Kubernetes: Instantiating and managing container on on-prem set up.
Node exporter, Prometheus & Grafana: Monitoring infra and application stack.
Python/Bash Scripting: Helps to write code for automation.
Technical Expertise: Be a subject expert and drive shared learning and collaboration. Be a leader in the industry and recognised externally as a thought leader and for making outstanding contributions to the industry, perhaps via a professional body.
Nice to have:
Linux: Hands on CLI
ELK Stack: Performing log collection, aggregation, storing and visualization
GIT: Source code version control
Maven & NPM: Building java and angular related application
Jenkins & Spinnaker: Performing CI & CD for applications
Ansible: Working with infrastructure as a code environment
Service Now & Jira: Working on incidents and progressing day to day tasks assigned
SLI/SLO: Setting up SLI, SLO and error budget
Inlife: Monitoring tools satck deployed in compute
Post Mortem: Working on inlife incidents and working on post mortem.
Deployment/Drop: Working application deployment in test/prod bed.
Patching: Computes need to patch periodically to avoid vulnerability
Strategic / Enterprise Perspective: Able to create and articulate a compelling holistic strategic vision and roadmap to both colleagues and external contractors. This may require an ability to articulate complex information to colleagues working outside the technical space.
Change Management/Agile Delivery: Able to create and sustain successful large scale and complex business change. An expert in change management.
Process design & documentation: The ability to describe, map and document down to the procedural detail complete processes on a structured way. The ability to organise and structure the process flow in synchronisation with the exchanges with other processes.
Your Benefits
10% on target bonus
Life Assurance
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing with service
BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
World-class training and development opportunities
Direct share scheme
Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest TV, mobile and broadband packages
Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
3 volunteering days per year
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.
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.
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