Job Description

Why this job matters

• BT\'s Mobile Innovations Labs provide our stakeholders with the best Mobile Telecoms Network Test Facility in the UK. It enables the development, testing and integration of world-class solutions, on the best in-class environments.
• You will support the development of Mobile Core Network components - helping our Testers, Designers and Operations to work together to make EE & BT\'s fixed and mobile services the best in the UK.
• You will ensure the timely availability of robust and proven test environments, building against a defined standard and ensuring appropriate connectivity between systems both internally and externally, applying appropriate security.

What you\'ll be doing

• This is an opportunity for a highly energetic individual to drive innovation in Software Defined Network (SDN) related technologies for delivering production Network Function Virtualization (NFV) services within BT.
• You will be responsible for supporting next generation NFV service delivery platform based on cutting edge NFV, SDN technologies, cloud virtualization technologies, and cloud computing technologies that are revolutionizing telecom industries.
• You will also have solid background in driving good practice around process - specifically Fault, Change and Configuration Management.
• You will be an excellent team player, comfortable collaborating with both local and remote team members. You will be customer focussed - setting high standards and driving good practice across the team.
• You will want to progress your own career - taking advantage of opportunities to evolve and expand both your own knowledge and capabilities and helping others around you.

Skills required for the job

You will have technical skills and experience to provide 1st and 2nd line support in the following areas.

• Linux - Oracle Linux /Ubuntu/SUSE/Red hat
• Dell PowerEdge/HP ProLiant
• Kubernetes
• Ansible
• Virtualization - VMWARE ESXI 6.7 and 7.0, Vcenter 6.7, 7.0, vSAN Storage, VCD
• SDDC
• Vrealise Automation/VROPS
• Vcenter 6.5 , 6.7 and 7

The following areas would also be useful

• Dell/EMC NetWorker and DataDomain
• Symantic NetBackup 7.X
• Nagios
• Windows Server Administration and deployment 2016/2019
• Active Directory/WSUS/DNS/App-V
• Citrix XenApp

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.

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.

BT