Software Engineering Professional

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to create, build, automate, and help enterprise-scale infrastructure and application platforms. The role involves enabling engineering teams through platform automation, improving system reliability, and driving operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing

Platform Engineering & Automation
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable DevOps and SRE platforms.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Git-Ops and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Standardize deployment processes through reusable automation frameworks and templates.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.

Kubernetes & Container Platforms
• Deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Assist production-grade containerized applications and microservices.
• Implement service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication using mTLS.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, and resilience initiatives.

Cloud & Infrastructure
• Manage on-prem and private cloud platforms.
• Design highly available infrastructure architectures and disaster recovery solutions.
• Optimize infrastructure utilization, performance, and operational costs.

Security & Secrets Management
• Implement and manage enterprise secrets management solutions using HashiCorp Vault.
• Configure Kubernetes authentication, policies, roles, and secret engines.
• Automate certificate lifecycle management and secure application access.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and organizational standards.

Observability & Reliability Engineering
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Analyse system performance, capacity, and availability metrics.
• Assist proactive incident management and root cause analysis.
• Improve platform reliability through automation and continuous optimization.

DevOps Toolchain Management
• Manage tools such as Jenkins, GitOps platforms, Nexus, SonarQube, Dynatrace, and artifact repositories.
• Enable application teams to follow DevOps best practices and platform capabilities.
• Drive quality gates, security scanning, and deployment governance.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Kubernetes, Docker, Containerd, Podman
• Ansible
• Git-Ops methodologies, Jenkins CI/CD
• HashiCorp Vault, Service Mesh technologies (Kuma/Istio/Linkerd)
• Linux Administration (RHEL/Ubuntu)
• Shell Scripting, Bash, Python
• mTLS and certificate management
• Nexus Repository Manager

Desirable Skills / Experience

• SonarQube
• Kafka
• PostgreSQL, Oracle, Neo4j, OrientDB

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.