Cloud Engineering Specialist

United States Digital Space LLC; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

BT Group seeks a Cloud Engineering Specialist to design, build and operate BT Pay's AWS cloud platform in a DevOps setting. You will deliver secure, automated IaC solutions and help teams deploy payment services safely and efficiently.

You'll work with engineers, security, and product teams to improve our cloud platform, pipelines, and resilience while maintaining PCI-DSS alignment and strong developer experience.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads within AWS.
• Extensive experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across tools like GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting with Python and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security and identity management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
• Develop and maintain IaaC using Terraform with version control.
• Build, optimise and support CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning and deployments.
• Champion cloud engineering best practices in security, resilience, automation and observability.
• Ensure PCI-DSS and governance requirements are met.
• Collaborate with teams to improve developer experience via reusable modules and self-service capabilities.
• Monitor platform health and implement observability and incident response.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python/Bash

DevOps

Security

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Advertised Salary: Competitive

Location: Bangalore

About the role

Payments are fundamental to the company's commercial success, processing billions of pounds in transaction value annually across BT, EE, Plusnet and Openreach. As the company's strategic payments platform, BT Pay underpins secure, resilient and scalable payment capabilities across the organisation.

As a Cloud Engineering Specialist, you will play a key role in designing, building and operating BT Pay's AWS cloud platform. Working within a modern DevOps environment, you will deliver secure, automated, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions that enable engineering teams to build and deploy payment services safely and efficiently.

You'll work closely with software engineers, architects, security specialists and product teams to continually improve our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, operational resilience and developer experience, ensuring our platform remains secure, highly available and fully aligned with PCI-DSS standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure supporting BT Pay's production and non-production environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure is repeatable, scalable and fully version controlled.
• Build, optimise and support CI/CD pipelines that automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployment and operational processes.
• Champion cloud engineering best practices across security, resilience, automation and operational excellence.
• Ensure all platform changes meet PCI-DSS, security and operational governance requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience through reusable infrastructure modules, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Monitor platform health, availability and performance, implementing observability, alerting and proactive operational improvements.
• Investigate and resolve complex cloud infrastructure issues, supporting production incidents and root cause analysis where required.
• Work closely with Security, Architecture and Platform teams to continuously improve the cloud security posture, identity management and infrastructure resilience.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate manual activities, simplify operations and improve deployment reliability.
• Support disaster recovery, resilience testing and platform capacity planning across AWS environments.
• Mentor engineers within the wider team, sharing cloud engineering expertise and promoting DevOps and Infrastructure as Code best practice.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads within AWS.
• Extensive experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route53, S3, Secrets Manager, KMS and RDS/Aurora.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of containerisation technologies including Docker (Kubernetes/EKS desirable).
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security and identity management.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production services.
• Strong scripting capability using Python and/or Bash.
• Experience working within Agile engineering teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience working within PCI-DSS, financial services or other regulated environments.
• AWS Professional Certification.
• Terraform Associate Certification.
• Experience supporting payment platforms or financial transaction systems.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Experience implementing AWS Well-Architected Framework recommendations.
• Experience with GitOps deployment practices.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management, cloud security tooling and compliance automation.

the company is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

the company’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining the company means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.