Private Cloud Automation Engineer (DV Cleared)

BT Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5% employer pension?

£5,000 DV allowance

Job summary

BT Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to deliver next-generation private cloud platforms using VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell. The role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and residency in the UK for 10+ years, with on-site work across Ipswich, London, Cheltenham or Manchester.

You will collaborate with engineering, architecture and operations teams to enable end-to-end services, drive automation-first infrastructure, and strengthen

Qualifications

• Required to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) Security Clearance
• Must have lived in the UK for 10 or more years to obtain clearance
• Experience in infrastructure architecture/design, data centre infrastructure, IT infrastructure, CI/CD, automation and orchestration, and programming/scripting
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware Cloud Foundation
• Deep knowledge of VMware and enterprise virtualization environments
• Grounding in compute, storage, and networking fundamentals
• Proven ability in automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Desirable experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker; networking, security, and identity management; Linux or Windows system administration; and encryption and certificate management (PKI, TLS/SSL)

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver next-generation private cloud platforms using VMware Cloud Foundation
• Drive automation-first infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell
• Solve complex platform challenges across compute, storage, and networking
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end services
• Enhance platform security, resilience, and performance at scale
• Support the stability and availability of critical services and enable customer workloads to be onboarded seamlessly

Skills

Infrastructure design

Data centre infra

IT infrastructure

CI/CD

Automation & orchestration

Scripting/Programming

Cloud platforms

VMware Cloud Foundation

Compute, storage, networking

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware vSphere

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Job description

BT Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to deliver next-generation private cloud platforms using VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell. The role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and residency in the UK for 10+ years, with on-site work across Ipswich, London, Cheltenham or Manchester.

You will collaborate with engineering, architecture and operations teams to enable end-to-end services, drive automation-first infrastructure, and strengthen