Mobile Cloud London, England
BT
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Mobile Cloud - Open Stack & K8 Specialist
Job Req ID: 5496
Posting Date: 4 Jun 2023
Function: Cloud
Location:
One Braham (4140), London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive and great benefits
Role Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Ipswich and London
Working Style: 3 days office, 2 days anywhere
Why this role matters
You will be responsible for specifying, building, securing and supporting environments that enable subscriber services to function within a mobile phone cloud core network. You will have both the technical skills and proven experience to support the following areas:
- Canonical Open Stack expertise and associated services
- System Administration in a Linux environment
- Good knowledge of Security Vulnerabilities across the IT industry and experience of Security Hardening strategy and practice.
- Driving best practice in Data Security concepts and protection systems.
- K8 cluster design and deployment
In this role you will have the opportunity to work on emerging technology – hosting open apps. You will also be involved in high profile work and will be part of a dynamic and friendly team.
This role is in our Network Services function, please view this video to find out more about us.
Network services
Key responsibilities
Primary
Primary
- Understanding the infrastructure requirements of CNF/VNF during cloud adoption process.
- Design and build K8S & K8S-based (eg CCD) cluster architecture, including tenant-specific Openstack & SDN components
- Support containerised layer of tenant CNF including K8S & its features such as Load Balancing (ECFE for CCD), Docker components, Network plugins & CNI’s etc
- Triage faults on tenant NFVi layer, involving tenant-specific SDN & Openstack configuration, which may involve further investigation into Network Cloud supported infrastructure
- Act as support resource to tenant teams for application onboarding & instantiation tasks (eg troubleshoot the deployment of heat templates, performing health checks at K8S layer)
- Supplier Management- Ensure that all cases escalated to support vendors are resolved within the appropriate time scales. Provide assistance to suppliers when required.
- Ensure tenant infrastructure architecture and design documentation are kept up to date.
- Mentor junior team members.
- Work with the other teams to develop, configure and maintain the infrastructure management solutions and tools required to manage all data services. Participate in all appropriate project forums.
- Provide support to various stakeholders such as Technology Operations Centre, Design, Build, Network Cloud and Dynamic Infrastructure, Capacity Planning, revenue Assurance and Customer Experience.
Secondary
- Troubleshoot Network flows & connectivity between K8S cluster nodes
- Troubleshoot Network flows & connectivity for storage relates issues.
- Support troubleshooting of any integration issues at the Openstack/K8 level
- Experience working on Cloud storage solution
Skills required
Mandatory
- Expert understanding of Openstack environments
- Excellent working knowledge of Nova, Swift,Cinder,Neutron, Horizon,Keystone, Glance and Cellometer
- Excellent understanding of containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience of Open Stack in a telco cloud environment using SDN
- Good understanding of Linux
- Exposure to Virtualisation technologies (e.g. KVM or ESXi)
- Openstack vendor led training accreditation.
- Experience working on Cloud environents (ideally Private Cloud)
Preferred
- Use of OSS tools to support performance related issues (e.g. Prometheus & Grafana)
- Experience in scripting and markup languages (e.g.Bash, Python, Perl, YAML)
- Experience with Integrate Servers with Centralised syslog management tools
- Experience with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
- Use of git based repositories
- Receiving Security scan report results and Implementing highlighted patches using change management.
- Ensuring patches/changes have been tested (nonproduction and by vendor).
- Keeping audit of teams hardware and licencing details
- Experience of troubleshooting complex design /integeration issues during tenanat on-boarding
Benefits
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.
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 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. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘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.
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