Network Design & Test Professional

Job Req ID: 60555

Posting Date: 17th July 2026

Closing Date: 31st July 2026

Location: Ipswich

About the role

This role will be responsible for creating and testing detailed network designs in support of multi-million pound contracts on business and UK critical networks. This will be across a variety of technologies, platforms and services including IPP,Mobile, Ethernet, IP Connect and UK Fabric. You’ll be part of a team that delivers the network expertise underpinning the UK’s business telecommunications.

This role is based in Ipswich & requires 3 days in the office

What you’ll be doing

As a Network Professional, you’ll work with Product and Platform Specialists and Business owners to determine solutions, solve problems and deliver network expertise to the business. This will include various networking technologies, developing solutions, documenting designs, testing designs and code variants to deploy on BT’s networks and services.

Specifically, this role is accountable for:

• Design and develop new solutions for IPP
• Hands on testing and validation of designs for IPP and CPE devices.
• Working directly with BT’s Operational, Platform and External peers to ensure TSA Compliance and refresh of the network.
• Network Design using a wide range of IP protocols.
• Network Testing of designs using traffic generators and analysers.
• Design and Test for other platforms and Products such as Mobile, IP Connect and UK Fabric in a multi-skilled team.

Essential Skills / Experience

Mandatory

• Hands on experience in the design and testing of IP protocols.
• Experience in technical document writing.
• Problem solving skills and the ability to debug network issues.
• Knowledge of test generators and analysers.
• Knowledge and experience of routing and switching technologies.

Expected

• Knowledge of IP routing protocols.
• Proven ability to install, connect and configure test models.
• Good communication skills, reporting to senior managers.
• Knowledge of software skills and languages including Git, Python and Jinja2
• Knowledge of Jira project management and Agile working

Desirable Skills / Experience

• IP Certification (CCNA/JNCA)
• Experience of full the development lifecycle from requirement capture through to deployment and in life support.
• Experience of YANG network models
• Experience with gNMI, gRPC, JSON.
• Member of a professional body e.g. Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Demonstrable experience with Python (or similar) programming language.
• Demonstrable experience with Jinja2 templating.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.