Network Engineering Professional

BT Group; Highgate; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in the UK is seeking a Network Engineering Professional to optimize and enhance network reliability and performance. The role involves collaborating with various teams to implement changes using automation tools like Ansible and Python. Candidates should have experience in ISP environments, a solid understanding of network principles, and expertise with vendor hardware. This position offers comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

10% on target bonus

Life Assurance

BT Pension scheme

Direct share scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan option

Flexible benefits like gym memberships

World-class training opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing large-scale networks in an ISP setting.
• Knowledge of network protocols like BGP, OSPF, and DNS.
• Fair understanding of network architecture and design.
• Self-driven attitude toward learning new skills.
• Proficiency in Python or Ansible and familiarity with CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with leading vendor hardware.
• Experience deploying developments to live networks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams for flawless network changes.
• Utilize automation tools to manage infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot network faults and enhance performance.
• Provide technical resolution on a 24/7 basis.
• Understand customer journeys and optimize services.
• Investigate and learn new network technologies.

Skills

Experience in an ISP Environment

Network Fundamentals

Technical Proficiency

Growth Mindset

Programming Proficiency

Vendor Hardware Expertise

Continuous Application Deployments

Tools

Cisco

Dell

Juniper

Nokia

Python

Ansible

Job description

As part of this role, you'll directly contribute to improving reliability, scalability, and performance of services by driving automation, monitoring, and operational excellence across a number of environments.

Responsibilities

• Integration: Collaborate with design & platform teams and support the implementation of flawless change into the live network, utilizing automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation Tools: Utilize tools such as Ansible and Python to provision and manage infrastructure resources in a scalable and efficient manner.
• Technical Acumen: Apply your understanding of network principles to troubleshoot network faults within our systems and look at how you can optimize performance and enhance security across our infrastructure.
• Incident Management and Resolution: Be prepared to support a 365x24/7 callout, providing final line assurance technical resolution covering an extensive range of technologies.
• Customer Focus: Be a technical expert who understands the end-to-end journey of our customers.
• Growth and Development: As a technically talented professional you should enhance the brand of the team and support those around you to be accountable and perform at their best.
• The Network Engineering Professional will specialise in engineering with a curious approach towards automation. Candidates will be required to leverage their knowledge in engineering and use software to transform the way we interact with networks. A key responsibility will be investigating and learning new technologies, so a desire to learn is equally as valuable as experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in an ISP Environment: Proven experience in a fast‑paced ISP setting, managing and troubleshooting large‑scale networks.
• Network Fundamentals: Knowledge of network protocols, including Radius, BGP, OSPF, DNS, MPLS and others.
• Technical Proficiency: Fair understanding of network architecture, design, and implementation.
• Growth Mindset: Self‑driven attitude towards learning new skills and aiding the development of others.
• Programming Proficiency: Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python or Ansible, as well as a familiarity with CI/CD orchestration.
• Vendor Hardware Expertise: Hands‑on experience with hardware from leading vendors such as Cisco, Dell, Juniper, and Nokia.
• Continuous Application Deployments: Experience deploying new developments to live networks across a variety of infrastructure, including Virtual Machines, Routers, Switches, and Servers.

Company Background

BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivaled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet – we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. While we are through the most capital‑intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies. Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing with service
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Direct share scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World‑class training and development opportunities

Core Values

Leading inclusively and Safely: I inspire and build trust through self‑awareness, honesty and integrity. Owning outcomes: I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation. Looking out: Delivering for the customer I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business. Commercially savvy I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision‑making. Looking to the future: Growth mindset I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation. Building for the future I build diverse future‑ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.