Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Security isn't always the first thing that comes to mind when you think of BT, but when it comes to keeping everyone safely connected, We Are The Protectors. We deal with thousands of cyber-attacks every day, so that millions of people can safely go about their daily lives and run their businesses. We deliver vital work at scale, with real breadth and impact. We connect for good.

**About this role**

You'll be joining a specialist security team that is a trusted partner to governments worldwide, protecting critical national infrastructure and committed to the safety and security of our nation and global communities. Our mission focused work is innovative, inspiring and technologically challenging in a way that makes every day different and stimulating. We provide the opportunity to work on rare projects, with exciting tools and brilliant people. Everyone has access to unparalleled professional and personal development opportunities and your contribution is always valued.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Specialist you’ll be working within a fast paced, constantly evolving team, that delivers world class secure solutions that make a real difference to our customers. You’ll be playing a leading role in the design and delivery of our cloud-based solutions, setting their technical direction, working directly with our customers and be deeply hands on in their implementation. As a customer focused team, you’ll be working directly with customer throughout the delivery process.

You’ll also be developing more junior members of the team, using your own cloud and professional experience to support their ongoing professional development.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**
- Providing the technical direction for the development and delivery of world class secure cloud-based solutions.
- Working directly with our customers to understand their requirements, and work collaboratively to define solutions.
- Be hands on in the build and development of cloud-based solutions.
- Translating architectural designs into infrastructure-as-code defined solutions.
- Working with support teams to enable management and monitoring of cloud-based systems, and their own going support.
- Providing some ongoing support to deployed cloud-based solutions.
- Ensuring compliance of cloud systems with security policies and regulatory requirements
- Either line manage or act as a mentor to more junior cloud architects and developers with responsibility for assigning tasks and their own going professional development.
- Responsible for designing and deploying world leading cloud-based solutions for our Customers.
- Mentoring and supporting the ongoing development of other members of the team.
- Sharing of best practice and new approaches with wider team.

**You'll have the following skills & experience**
- Utilisation of Cloud (both compute and appropriate managed services). Primarily in AWS with growth likely into Azure and GCP.
- Managing infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Pulumi, Terraform).
- Use of scripting languages (Python, Powershell,etc) to define processes and serverless functions.
- Micro-service and container based deployment strategies, and a zero trust authorization model.
- Application of software engineering principles to complex systems at scale.
- Maintaining and operating capabilities through-life.
- Continuous improvement through Agile processes.
- A desire to continually update, enhance and validate cloud skills (both practical and certification).
- Certification in AWS is desirable, but practical AWS experience is more important.
- Experience in either line managing a team or mentoring and developing more junior team members, being responsible for their on going professional development.

**_Due to the sensitive nature of our work, you will be required to gain and maintain high level government security clearance and be willing to undergo the initial enhanced screening. All job offers are conditional on these requirements._**

**Benefits**
- Discounted BT Broadband, TV & mobile packages and BT products
- On target Bonus
- Share options and 10% pension contribution
- Professional development and paid for industry certifications/qualifications
- Flexible benefits/rewards including dental insurance, healthcare, gym memberships etc.
- Well-being support for you and your family
- 3 days paid volunteering a year

**About BT**

There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

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