Software Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Why this job matters

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS Platform Lead to create, operate, and govern enterprise-scale AWS platforms.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services, strong experience with EKS and serverless architectures, and the ability to define and enforce DevOps, security, and cost optimization best practices across multiple teams and accounts.
This role will act as the custodian of AWS cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence

What you’ll be doing

AWS Platform & Account Management
• Design and manage multi-account AWS environments using best-practice account structures.
• Set up and manage AWS accounts for enterprise teams using AWS Organizations.
• Define account-level guardrails, policies, and governance standards.
• Manage networking foundations including VPCs, subnets, routing, and connectivity.

Core AWS Services Expertise
• Architect, deploy, and operate solutions using:
o EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
o AWS Lambda
o API Gateway
o SNS, SQS
o EC2, Auto Scaling
o IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Support both containerized and serverless workloads.

Kubernetes & Container Platforms
• Design, deploy, and operate EKS clusters at scale.
• Manage cluster upgrades, autoscaling, networking, and security.
• Define best practices for containerization using Docker.
• Support workload isolation, namespace strategies, and cluster observability.

DevOps & CI/CD Enablement
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Promote GitOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Standardize deployment patterns across teams.
• Enable self-service capabilities for development teams.

Security & Quality Scans
• Implement and manage:
o Infrastructure security scans
o Container image vulnerability scans
o Compliance and policy enforcement
• Work with security teams to address vulnerabilities and audit findings.
• Enforce IAM best practices, least privilege access, and secrets management.

Cost Optimization & FinOps
• Monitor and optimize AWS costs across accounts and services.
• Implement tagging strategies for cost allocation.
• Identify and drive cost optimization initiatives (rightsizing, savings plans, reserved instances).
• Partner with teams to build cost-aware architectures.

Observability & Reliability
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Improve platform reliability using SRE and operational excellence practices.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets where applicable.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis.

DevOps Standards & Best Practices
• Define and enforce DevOps standards across the organization.
• Drive automation-first and cloud-native principles.
• Coach teams on CI/CD, reliability, and operational best practices.
• Reduce manual effort and operational toil.

The skills you’ll need

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS core services.
• Strong expertise in EKS and Kubernetes.
• Solid experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway).
• Experience managing enterprise AWS accounts using AWS Organizations.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and IAM.
• Demonstrate experience in cost optimization and FinOps.

Nice-to-Have Skills
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security).
• Experience with GitOps tools.
• Knowledge of observability tools (CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Prometheus).

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
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 Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.