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Kubernetes Platform Engineer

BT Group

Manchester

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GBP 60,000 - 90,000

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Job summary

A telecommunications company based in Manchester is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design and develop a Kubernetes managed service within a private cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Linux, hands-on Kubernetes knowledge, and proficiency with automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. This role offers a variety of benefits including a bonus scheme, comprehensive leave options, and world-class training opportunities.

Benefits

10% on target bonus
BT Pension scheme
25 days annual leave
24/7 private virtual GP appointments
World-class training opportunities

Qualifications

  • Experience in on-prem or private cloud environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of SDN, DPDK, and SR-IOV is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a Kubernetes managed service.
  • Automate cluster deployment, scaling, and management using IaC practices.
  • Support operations teams with documentation and incident management.

Skills

Linux OS experience
Kubernetes experience
Networking fundamentals
Terraform or Ansible

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
Python
Job description
Responsibilities
  • Design and development: Working closely with an agile development team of Kubernetes engineers to co-design and develop a Kubernetes managed service for telco functions within a high security private cloud environment.
  • Automation: Automating cluster deployment, scaling, and management using infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration tools. Collaborating with development teams on infrastructure deployment best practices, encompassing CI/CD pipelines and related frameworks such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
  • Operations: Utilising a DevOps approach, providing documentation and incident escalation support to operations teams to facilitate in life service and incident management of the Kubernetes managed service.
  • Integration: Building a deep understanding of varied software spanning security, logging, monitoring, cloud infrastructure, networks, and how best to integrate these into a cohesive platform solution.
  • Innovation and Evaluation: Contributing to the exploration of cutting-edge technologies through the deployment of new technology proof-of-concept projects related to Kubernetes, participation in their assessment, and development into an in-life service.
  • Communication: Adept communicator facilitating effective collaboration within and across engineering and delivery teams, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Cloud engineering: Proficient in developing Terraform, Ansible, and Python in a cloud environment with an emphasis on developing robust, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure.
  • Design and development: hands on design, build, maintenance and development of a Kubernetes managed service.
  • Networking: Working knowledge of IP networking, routing, switching, and firewall principles and protocols. Experience with SDN, DPDK and SR-IOV would be a plus.
  • Security tools and practices: Configuration of PKI, certificates, HashiCorp Vault, and software supply chain security, in the context of cloud and Kubernetes environments.
  • CI/CD: Expertise in integrating with a GitOps workflow, employing infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices. Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent, automated deployments.
Qualifications
  • Experience Required for the Role Mandatory
  • Strong Linux OS experience
  • Worked in on-prem or private cloud environments
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience (using K8s, not necessarily running the control plane)
  • Experience with at least one automation/IaC tool (Terraform or Ansible ideal)
  • Strong networking fundamentals
Nice to have
  • Experience with OpenStack
  • Bare-metal provisioning
  • Experience with Rancher/RKE2, or other on-prem K8s flavours
  • CI/CD tooling
  • Scripting in Python/Golang
  • GitOps concepts
  • Telco networking technologies (SR-IOV, DPDK)
Benefits
  • On target 10% on target bonus
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It\'s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
  • Enhanced women\'s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
  • 2 weeks carer\'s leave
  • World-class training and development opportunities
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
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