Cloud Engineering Practitioner

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This role is based out of our New Bailey, Manchester, or One Braham London offices. We have a hybrid working model of 3 days together and 2 days wherever.

Due to the nature of the work, you will need to be elegible for security clearance+.

About the role

Enterprise rely on Technology, and more specifically Secure Platforms, to underpin the services that they provide to their customers.

As a Cloud Engineering practitioner, you will be accountable for designing, implementing, and optimising cloud solutions that align with organisational goals and industry best practices. This role requires strategic thinking and technical expertise. You will ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of cloud environments across multiple platforms.

What you’ll be doing

1. Executes the automation initiatives of cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, infrastructure-as-code services, auto scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment
2. Maintains and operates platform components and tools according to DevOps model monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health, troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly
3. Supports cloud leadership with key stakeholders to influence the adoption of cloud-native systems, by informing stakeholders on how to use platform capabilities effectively through appropriate avenues
4. Collaborates with quality assurance and technical writers to complete development cycle
5. Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to scope and de-risk development activities in advance
6. Troubleshoots customer environments and assists with complex escalations as a technical resource to the team
7. Identifies and supports on the remediation of security gaps to help strengthen security posture
8. Identifies, analyses, and resolves infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues with minimal guidance
9. Continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in cloud engineering
10. Supports the implementation of ways to improve working processes within the area of cloud engineering responsibility through data analysis to identify issues and areas of improvements
11. Identifies opportunities for cost efficiencies and supports in their implementation

Essential Skills / Experience

• Deep understanding of networking, security, and compliance frameworks in cloud environments.
• AWS Cloud Engineering - experience designing, deploying, supporting and maintaining cloud infrastructure across AWS environments.
• Cloud Platform Operations & Support - experience operating and supporting production cloud platforms, including monitoring performance and availability, troubleshooting incidents, managing complex escalations, and maintaining platform reliability and observability.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Azure Cloud Engineering
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Experience working in regulated industries and secure environments

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
• Equalized 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.

Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now.

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.