Software Engineering Professional

About the role

The LMA Developer is capable for building and maintaining observability and monitoring solutions for OpenStack-based NFVI platforms. The role focuses on developing automation using Juju and Ansible, managing monitoring stack deployments, and enhancing the LMA control plane. The engineer will work on deploying and operating exporters, telemetry, alerting, and metrics collection services to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions for OpenStack-based NFVI platforms to improve system reliability and visibility.
• Build and enhance automation using Juju and Ansible to simplify deployment, configuration, and operations.
• Deploy, manage, and help monitoring components such as exporters, metrics collection, and alerting services through the LMA control plane.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and platform teams to troubleshoot issues, improve observability, and deliver scalable monitoring capabilities.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Experience developing and helping applications or platform services in Linux-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools, ideally Ansible and/or Juju.
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and OpenStack concepts.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, including metrics collection, alerting, and telemetry solutions.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python or Go.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in distributed systems.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and software development best practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and operations teams and convey technical information clearly.

Our Package

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.