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About this role

You will be a part of the GCP Core Engineering team in the BT Cloud Centre of Excellence.  The team are the custodians of BT’s public cloud service offering being deployed onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP).  The role will be a part of the team spearheading the deployment of GCP services within BT, working closely with the teams in Data & AI who own our Big Data, Analytics and similar services. The team are responsible for development, deployment and upkeep of the GCP "landing zone" - a set of standardized services, security controls and patterns for adoption. The team build GCP “product lines” to meet the requirements of application and data & analytics tenants. The team are also consulted in the implementation supporting the adoption of GCP services in solutions supporting our customer facing units.  

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining and extending the 'landing zone' capabilities to support new business requirements and security considerations. 

• Innovating and extending the cloud engineering teams engineering quality through code management, build and deployment pipelines, adopt CI/CD. 

• Support and lay foundation for large scale migration of data warehouses etc. from on-prem to GCP

• Provide infrastructure solutions for complex cloud migrations and native cloud application developments.

• Deploy various GCP services including Projects, VPC, Firewall rules etc as and when required by the engineering teams – major focus on Data, AI & Analytics

• Networking - Design and configure VPNs, CDNs, Interconnect, and DNS solutions

• Create and deliver best practices, recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.

• Build robust Identity & Access Management (IdAM) configurations

• Work on a variety of tools and functions including GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, VPC, Subnets.

• Driving outcomes through agile collaborative processes and being able to estimate and plan multi-sprint features and alignment to quarterly outcomes

• Accountable for delivering quality software   interactively

• Lead in identifying potential continuous improvements to practices while being conscious of costs and benefits; and taking ownership of implementing any changes based on improvements identified

• Provides mentoring support and assurance of work of other engineers in a matrix squad structure. 

• Manages stakeholder relationships – including end colleagues (through feature requirements capture, show and tells). Will also manage stakeholders in security, audit and compliance of cloud. 

• You will build, run, and operate the services you implement and will at times be accountable for supporting any operational challenges or issues that arise 

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information for the cloud community to consume – driving home the improvements we are making to the self-service experience.

• Automating requests coming from Data & AI team to create various GCP services.

• Implementing security and best practice guardrails – responsive, detective, and preventative controls. 

• Enabling GCP services in a secure compliant way

• Engineering security controls with automation

• Be fully cost conscious and drive cost efficiency in everything we do – experience of Cloud FinOps desirable

• Documenting and sharing experience on cloud adoption within the BT Digital engineering areas.

• Designing operational solutions to minimise the impact to end users of the platform during failures. 

• Build blue/green and phased on-ramp patterns when introducing new features into service and able to design solutions that can auto-recover or self-heal.  

• Working closely with a variety of IT teams across the business to deliver solutions onto a Google cloud platform – this will range from being a consultant, to offering boiler plate templates and examples, through to building solutions with the IT teams directly.

• Working with designers and architects to shape the Cloud solutions in accordance with Google and BT’s practices.   

• Building cloud best practices and blog posts – regularly contributing to Workplace channel and Platform Wiki

• Collaborating with Data & AI and Google on new feature requests and issues 

• Working in a team that designs, builds, and runs our own products and services. 

• Acting in an operational support role where incidents occur in the underlying cloud platform and you may form a part of a support rota. 

You'll have the following skills & experience

• Excellent communication skills, often being able to compromise but draw out risks and constraints associated with solutions but also communicate with a wide audience of stakeholders up to ‘B’ level 

• You will have a DevSecOps mindset, with security being job number one, and be familiar with SRE

• Be able to work independently and collaborate with other BT teams and Google

• Be available to travel and work remotely when required.

• Have experience working as a part of a team using agile methodologies

• You will have extensive hands-on experience of 3+ years of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar

• Have experience in the build of Cloud based infrastructures through IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and be competent in CloudFormation / Terraform

• You will have working knowledge of software engineering tools - Gitlab, Jenkins (or other CI/CD tools) and will be familiar with the equivalent services on GCP.

• Sound knowledge of Configuration management technologies such as YAML & Terraform

• Ability to produce comprehensive designs and ensuring code has excellent documentation

• Have knowledge of how to apply both native Cloud security and monitoring services in GCP, including VPC Service Controls, Cloud IAM, Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud Security Command Center, and Cloud Security Scanner and Cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, encryption, boundary defense, auditing, authentication, and risk management.

• Experience with network firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), anti-malware, vulnerability scanning, encryption, monitoring, and Identity, and Access Management (IdAM)

• Previous experience of building and deploying architectures into BT’s data centres and familiar with deployment and rollback solutions 

You should also hold or be preparing for an GCP - Professional Cloud Security/Network Engineer certification. 

It would be desirable but not essential to have

• Experience with container technologies like GKE

• Experience with serverless architectures in the cloud

• Experience of Big Data and Analytics & Data Science (to better understand our customers and users)

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• 50% discount on BT Mobile and EE Mobile

• 10% on target bonus

• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan

• Pension scheme

• Shares Plan

• Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etc.

• Discounted BT products

About BT

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.

We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT

How to Apply

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