Network Engineer - Environment Professional

Job Description

Recruiter: Molly Lees

Hiring Manager: Benjamin Peskett

Internal Closing Date: 2nd September 2025

Location: Ipswich , Hybrid 3 days in office 2 remote

Why this job matters

Gemini Evolution is the team behind BT’s Network Test Facility at Adastral Park – a mission-critical environment where BT’s next-gen hardware and software are tested and validated before being deployed across BT’s live Networks.
As an Environment Professional in Gemini Evolution, you’ll take ownership of building, maintaining, and refining high-fidelity model environments ensuring they mirror real-world network conditions. This is a hands-on role where your engineering expertise and collaborative mindset will directly shape the reliability, scalability, and performance of BT’s Test Infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing

Network Model Build: Deploys new physical network builds across a variety of platforms, ensuring service level agreement (SLA) compliance and customer satisfaction throughout.
Tool Proficiency: Uses lab management tools for network commissioning and inventory management
Procurement: Raises purchase orders using recognised BT systems.
Environment Monitoring & Maintenance: Manages alarms, fault resolution, and trend analysis. Performs scheduled equipment maintenance per vendor specifications.
Process Improvement & Innovation: Proposes enhancements to model build standards and processes. Supports equipment consolidation and new model planning.
Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Coaches team members, documents solutions, and supports training and onboarding of new recruits.
Compliance & Best Practice: Adheres to Health & Safety, Telecommunications Security Act (TSA), and Gemini building standards. Identifies opportunities to improve working practices.
Technical Growth: Actively drives personal development and contributes to Gemini Evolution team strategy.

Skills

Experience in Networking, systems integration, or infrastructure engineering
A proactive, problem-solving mindset and strong collaboration skills
Effective communication and stakeholder management
Experience working both independently and collaboratively
A growth mindset and commitment to continuous learning
Ability to coach and mentor others
Proven track record of delivering to customer requirements

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.

Benefits

Competitive salary
10% on target bonus
BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
World-class training and development opportunities
Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop

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.