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DevOps Engineer London, England

Full Time London, England 45488 - 69782 GBP ANNUAL Today

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DevOps Engineer

Job Req ID: 11026

Posting Date: 02-Apr-2023

Function: Engineering

Location: Whitehall, London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits +5K DV Allowance

Recruiter: Thomas Porter
Career Grade - D

Either have DV Clearance or will need to obtain it

Locations - London, Cheltenham or Ipswich

Security isn’t always the first thing that comes to mind when you think of BT, but when it comes to keeping everyone safely connected, We Are The Protectors. We deal with thousands of cyber-attacks every day, so that millions of people can safely go about their daily lives and run their businesses. We deliver vital work at scale, with real breadth and impact. We connect for good.

This is an opportunity to play your part and protect our company, our customers and our communities from cyberattack. Be part of a dedicated team and get ready to be challenged every day to make the most of your skills and experience. You’ll learn from those around you, and from outstanding training and development resources to become even better at what you do. With the best technology at your fingertips, you'll be part of a friendly and flexible working environment where your contribution is always valued.

In your role as DevOps Lead, you’ll work closely with customers and bring your deep technical expertise to bear on interesting and challenging problems. You will be a technical expert, proposing and designing innovative solutions, solving real-word issues for customers, and leading the delivery in an agile manner. You will engage directly with the customer to build exactly what they need to time/cost/quality. You will have the opportunity to learn about a wide range of technologies, hardware, and DevOps practices. The solutions you will create will utilise the latest technologies, demonstrate innovation and thought-leadership, and provide brilliant outcomes for customers.

What you’ll do:

Own and contribute to the delivery of specific components and tasks within projects.
Engage and foster relationships with the customer, suppliers, professional networks, subject matter experts.
Actively contribute to team knowledge sharing, performing mentoring and coaching.
Report to both a project manager and a team lead, providing estimates for work and delivery dates.
Own high-level design, architectures, visions for platforms which can deliver against customer requirements

Be hands on in the design, development, and testing of the solution. This could include the specification of the system, choice of technologies, creation of data models, implementation, configuration, development, and testing.
Be part of a team contributing to the end-to-end technical delivery, understanding how the solution is progressing
Work with a range of datasets and platforms including on-prem, cloud or hybrid models
Ensuring security requirements are met with the solutions that are created

You’ll definitely:

Be self-driven, able to get to grips with new technology when needed and demonstrate independent research and learning.
Demonstrate excellent problem-solving abilities and able to work through issues in a logical manner, documenting solutions as required.
Have in-depth technical knowledge of the Linux Operating System.
Understand and have experience of Infrastructure-as-code tools/patterns and Configuration Management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or similar).

Understand network architecture: routing, switching, firewalls & VLANs.
Have good knowledge of building and deploying bare-metal and virtual systems using automated processes (e.g. Anaconda Kickstart, RedHat Satellite/Foreman).
Have a detailed understanding of system monitoring, metrics, logging, and audit technologies.
Have a range of skills in scripting and the Python programming language.
Have experience of working and leading tasks using a DevOps way of working.

Have detailed knowledge of using and configuring big data technologies.
Have experience of continuous improvement and process optimisation.

You might even:

Have knowledge of big data architectures and experience designing new big data solutions.

Have knowledge of cloud and hybrid data processing architectures.
Have experience of owning the delivery of projects against Time, Cost and Quality metrics.
Have experience of estimating, planning, and costing projects and tasks.
Have experience of managing customer requirements and expectations.
Have experience contributing and leading technical workshops with customers to elaborate requirements, designs, and architectures.

What’s in it for you?

Location: Ipswich, Cheltenham, or London
Weekly Hours: 37.5
Salary: Career Framework Band D
Position Type: Full Time

Contract: Permanent

Why BT?

Empowered, challenged, supported, and rewarded, our people are the key to our success. Our people keep customers happy with great service. We’ve focused on creating an energising culture that makes BT an even better place to build a career. We’re at the top of our game, and this is your chance to join us.

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. 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 - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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!

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