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Mobile Cloud London, England

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

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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