Software Engineering Professional

Job Description

Why BT
We’ve always been an organisation with a purpose; to use the power of communication to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s firs telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast-changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Purpose of Role and Accountabilities

Purpose

The key purpose of this role is to take ownership and build solutions using opensource tools to provide observability for private cloud platform. The role will work independently with some guidance when needed and can contribute to pairing with other team members. The role ensures enabling rapid business feature delivery though automation in create/dev/test and build processes.

Accountabilities

• Assist the creation and development of discreet solutions in line with cloud technologies and security standards, demonstrating basic understanding of how solution impacts the wider Technology roadmap for an application

• Identifies and solves routine problems with components created, performs deep dive data analysis, potentially introducing new components or features to resolve issues.

• Conducts technical peer reviews within the organisation or with suppliers to ensure outputs align to quality standards and customer requirements.

• Creats and develops automation of services with team, ensuring and documenting the quality of delivery

• Contributes technical and logical knowledge where needed to assist managers, principals or technical experts to resolve issues during projects.nd Accountabilities

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Create, Implementation & Maintenance of Cloud native web application; following software development lifecycles.

Understanding CI/CD pipeline and VersionControl over Git.

Knowledge to deliver in Agile Methodology.

Ability to do deep dive on technical areas and get the best outcome out of technically challenging situations.

Understaning of telecom domain /OSS to help deliver customer solutions.

Collaborating with rest of engineering team to achive common goal of quality & reusable deliverables.

Drive strong engineering practices in the team

Ability to debug complex issues and provide the right solution

Skills required for the job

Hands on experience in Java JDK 11+, REST Webservices, Springboot, Spring data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud.

• Hands on experience on RDBMS and Nosql databases (Neo4j)

• Hands on experience in Containerising application, K8s.

• Understanding of observability tools like Prometheus, ELK, Grafana.

• Understansing of automation tools –Jenkins, Spinnaker and similar

• Expertise developing and working in a devops operating model.

• Basic knowledge on Cloud, Openstack, SDN etc is good to have

• Technical Expertise: Be a subject expert and drive shared learning and collaboration. Be a leader in the industry and recognised externally as a thought leader and for making outstanding contributions to the industry, perhaps via a professional body.

• Strategic / Enterprise Perspective: Able to create and articulate a compelling holistic strategic vision and roadmap to both colleagues and external contractors. This may require an ability to articulate complex information to colleagues working outside the technical space.

• Change Management/Agile Delivery: Able to create and sustain successful large scale and complex business change. An expert in change management.

• Process creation & documentation: The ability to describe, map and document down to the procedural detail complete processes on a structured way. The ability to organise and structure the process flow in synchronisation with the exchanges with other processes.

What do we need for this job

Be agile : You use your knowledge of best practice to collaborate with peers across the business in different ways.

Technology creation : You analyse user requirements and help to create components of the architecture for software, systems and networks.

Technology integration : You develop solutions, applying your knowledge of advanced technology applications, databases and platforms, containers, build tools and how various features interact.

Software development : You write basic code. You develop and test complex or non-routine digital software and platforms to make sure they meet create 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.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

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.