Software Engineering Specialist

BT Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BT Group is seeking a Software Engineering Specialist in Birmingham to enhance their security capabilities through software engineering. This hybrid role involves project delivery, SaaS configuration, and collaboration with the Security Engineering team, fostering innovation and security maturity. Candidates should possess strong software development skills and a growth mindset for continuous learning.

Benefits

10% on target bonus

BT Pension scheme with 10% contribution

25 days annual leave

Enhanced women's health support

World-class training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a Dev Ops Role.
• Strong communication skills including presentation and documentation.
• Experience in Agile software development systems and JIRA Tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivering and configuring SaaS Security Tooling within BT.
• Building bespoke apps and tooling to enhance BT's security.
• Working collaboratively with the team to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

End-to-End Solution Delivery

Software Engineering in Java, Python, JavaScript, Golang

Development Best Practices

Containerization Technology

Strong Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering

Tools

Gitlab

Jira

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Why this job matters

This role plays an important part in continually building up our security capability within BT. Working within the Security Engineering team, your software engineering skills will be focused across a variety of different projects, delivering new solutions and configuring SaaS products to widen the capability and maturity of security tooling in BT.

Why this job matters

This role plays an important part in continually building up our security capability within BT. Working within the Security Engineering team, your software engineering skills will be focused across a variety of different projects, delivering new solutions and configuring SaaS products to widen the capability and maturity of security tooling in BT.

This role is hybrid (3 days in office) and can be based in one of the following offices: Birmingham, Manchester, Ipswich (Ipswich only applicable to existing BT employees)

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivering and configuring SaaS Security Tooling within BT
• Software engineering to configure / customize new SaaS tools utilized within BT security
• Integration of tooling with wider BT products
• Continually drive software engineering best practices across the wider team
• Build bespoke apps and tooling that help Protect BT Group deliver against its key control commitments
• Engaged in requirements capture, design discussions for new capabilities
• Building an automated test framework
• CI/CD automated pipeline build
• Awareness of containerisation / Kubernetes
• Proactively drive forward continuous improvement within the team
• To be/become a recognized expert in at least one Cyber technology
• Growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and improve skills.
• Involved in the full software engineering lifecycle
  
  

Skills Required For The Role

Essential:

• End-to-End Solution Delivery: Expertise in taking ownership of a requirement from start to finish, including gathering detailed requirements, designing, and implementing robust, innovative solutions.
• Strong Experience in software engineering in 1 or more languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, Golang
• Experience of development best practices and tooling: Gitlab, Jira, user stories, test frameworks, TDD, design patterns
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others to drive forward key security objectives
• Experience with containerization technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills including presentation and documentation writing (to both technical and business audiences)
• Hands-on experience in installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring CI/CD pipeline tools e.g. Gitlab CI.
• Excellent team working skills including the ability to work effectively within a geographically disparate team
• Experience in Agile software development systems and JIRA Tools.
• Understanding IT, network services and security
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others to drive forward key security objectives
• Strong communication skills including presentation and documentation writing (to both technical and business audiences)
• An aptitude for autonomous learning as required by the demands of the business
• Proven problem-solving abilities
• Assertiveness, and the ability to drive through change
  
  

Advantageous:

• Experience of leading a small team of software engineers
• Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible
• Knowledge CI/CD tools Gitlab CI, Circle CI, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of Linux, Windows and Network Administration
• Knowledge and experience of cloud services (public or private), OpenStack and K8S
• DevOps qualifications
• Knowledge of Telecoms Security Act (TSA)
• Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh.
• Strong knowledge of security policy/regulatory frameworks
  
  

Experience Required For The Role

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related fields
• 5+ years experience in a Dev Ops Role demonstrating ownership of a critical platform
• Experience leading a Dev Ops squad proving oversight and leadership for the members.
  
  

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.
  
  

About Us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. 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.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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