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Network Engineering Specialist Ipswich, England

Full Time Ipswich, England 30000 - 47900 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Network Engineering Specialist

Job Req ID: 17033

Posting Date: 6 Jun 2023

Function: Engineering

Location: Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with great benefits

Why this job matters

Internet Services in BT build networks and software to connect and manage millions of consumers and thousands of SME and corporate business to the Internet. We are doing this in a few ways:

Creating services which our customers love. These are stable, secure, fast, dynamic and straightforward to configure.
Writing code (Python mostly) and using open source and the cloud to automate testing to configure and build out networks through continuous integration and delivery. Our ambition is to automate everything to provide features faster to our customers.
We are building software that allow us to operate our networks through code and API’s without the need of touching the network devices themselves.
We are refreshing our networks globally with higher throughput and lower energy devices, doing our bit for the planet.
We are building deeper capability to monitor our platforms and the services we provide so that we connect our customers for good.
Applying software best practice and principles to networks.

As a Network Design Specialist in the Internet team, you will be part of the team responsible for how our Internet networks are designed, tested and delivered into service, and help design services that connect BT, EE and Plusnet and our big customers to the Internet and our peer-providers. In addition, you will also help develop innovative new solutions, automate network change and improve in-life processes, such as capacity management, that we use to run the internet.

What you’ll be doing

Working autonomously and typically without supervision of more senior designers (although will consult with them) and providing technical guidance to more junior software engineers.
Owning, delivering network designs for the Internet platforms capabilities and solutions
Deciding on design scope, analysis and high level designs, as well as estimating the time and type of resource needed to support the deliverables with cost impact and duration
Deciding on network component choices, technology and/or vendor selection
Owning design improvements for resolving customer experience impacting network design issues
Working directly with wider platform managers, designers, delivery and operations managers on platform transformation
Capture business requirements by working with key business stakeholders and ensure that these requirements are translated into high quality technical solutions that are delivered to agreed dates
Promptly resolve any issues that arise during design and provide a technical steer as required
Ensure that designs adhere to architectural principles and policies
Provide advice to ensure rapid resolution of operational live issues.
Drive innovation and transformation within the design space

What you'll bring

Essential:

Experience of IP, Routing, template driven design.
Experience with at least one network operating system: IOS-XE, Junos, IOS-XR, etc.
Experience in Network Desigining.
Experience of Agile and Waterfall development methods using JIRA, Kanban, others.
Stakeholders Management.

Nice to Have:

Experience in cloud environments, AWS, GCP.
Experience of Orchestration and Automation, and Telemetry streaming.
Software Engineering background.
Understanding of how to secure software applications and ways of monitoring their evolving security requirements
Experience in dealing with Vendors sucha as Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, AWS.

Your Benefits

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
World-class training and development opportunities
Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan and access to 100's of retails discounts including BT shop
Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

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