Network Design and Test Professional

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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 Mobile, Ethernet, IP Connect, IPP and UK Fabric. You’ll be part of a team that delivers the network expertise underpinning the UK’s business telecommunications.

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.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and develop new solutions for Mobile Backhaul.
• Hands on testing and validation of designs for Mobile Backhaul.
• Working directly with BT’s customers and EE Mobile team on Mobile evolution.
• Network Design using a wide range of, Ethernet, IP, IPVPN and Internet protocols.
• Network Testing of designs using traffic generators and analysers.
• Design and Test for other platforms and Products such as IPP, IP Connect and UK Fabric in a multi-skilled team.

Essential Skills / Experience

• 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.
• Knowledge of IPVPN and associated 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

• Knowledge of Mobile, IPVPN or Internet platforms and services.
• 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
• Cisco and/or Juniper Certification or vendor equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience with Python (or similar) programming language.
• Demonstrable experience with Jinja2 templating.

Our Package

• Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance
• Direct share scheme
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
• equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

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.