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Working at BT Group

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    100,000 across BT Group (24,000 at BT Business)

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Join BT as a Software Engineering Specialist (Platform Engineer) based in Bristol or London, working in a full-time, permanent capacity on modern cloud-native platforms. You will collaborate with principal engineers and architects to design, build, and enhance platform services, improve Kubernetes reliability, and drive automation.

Requirements

  • Strong Kubernetes engineering experience within production environments.
  • Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
  • Infrastructure automation experience using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.
  • Desirable skills include AWS, Docker, TypeScript, Kong/Apigee, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices.
  • No specific degree or minimum years of experience are explicitly stated.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Kubernetes: Design, build, and enhance cloud-native platform services while improving Kubernetes-based platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain automation through Terraform, OpenTofu, and DevSecOps practices to support developer enablement.
  • API Management & Integration: Support API management, gateway technologies, and integration capabilities across BT's engineering platform.
  • Collaboration: Partner with senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders to troubleshoot complex production issues and shape platform direction.
  • Potential transition routes: People from DevOps Engineer, Systems Administrator, or Backend Developer roles may bring containerization and automation skills, alongside meeting strong Kubernetes and infrastructure as code requirements.

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About the role

BT is continuing its move away from legacy technology estates towards modern cloud-native platforms that enable teams to build and operate services more effectively.

Within the Integration Centre of Excellence, we're building and evolving a strategic engineering platform that supports integration services, API management, developer enablement and platform operations. Adoption of the platform is growing and we're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to help shape what comes next.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll contribute to the platform itself while helping engineering teams across BT consume and benefit from it. You'll work closely with principal engineers, architects and platform specialists to improve reliability, automation, security and developer experience.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving engineering problems, improving platforms at scale and working across a broad technical landscape rather than focusing on a single technology.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a platform that will influence how engineering teams across BT build and operate services. You'll work directly alongside experienced principal engineers and architects, contribute to strategic engineering initiatives and have the freedom to shape solutions rather than simply maintain existing systems.

For engineers who enjoy platform thinking, developer enablement and cloud-native technologies, this is an opportunity to have visible impact across a large-scale technology estate.

What you’ll be doing

  • Driving improvements across BT's engineering platform and integration capabilities
  • Designing, building and enhancing cloud-native platform services
  • Helping engineering teams adopt platform tooling and self-service capabilities
  • Improving Kubernetes-based platform reliability, scalability and operational excellence
  • Building and maintaining automation through Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices
  • Supporting API management and integration capabilities including gateway technologies
  • Troubleshooting complex platform and production issues
  • Collaborating with senior engineers, architects and stakeholders to shape platform direction

Essential Skills / Experience

  • Strong Kubernetes engineering experience within production environments
  • Platform Engineering, SRE or Cloud Engineering experience
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform, OpenTofu or similar technologies
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BT Group

Software Engineering Specialist

Bristol, London
Competitive Salary + 10% Bonus + Benefits

Desirable Skills / Experience

  • AWS cloud engineering
  • Docker and container technologies
  • TypeScript development
  • Kong or Apigee API gateway experience
  • DevSecOps and CI/CD practices
  • Monitoring and observability tooling
  • GitOps approaches and automation
  • Integration, messaging or API ecosystem experience

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life.
You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

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.

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