About this role

Engineering is a large multi-disciplined ‘professional services’ engineering practice. The team is organised in key customer focused capabilities which each have sub-capability areas comprising single or multiple engineering delivery projects.

Our Engineering mantra is “Technical Excellence in Engineering”, and we deliver some amazing technical capabilities for our customers which can only happen if we recruit, train, and support our people

The purpose of this role is to Support the GSS organisation by delivering customer networks, platforms, and systems in support of ourselves and special customers. 

Deliver and operate these services within agreed performance standards and contractual agreements whilst operating within agreed timescales and budgets. 

Security Clearance: A DV level of National Security Vetting will be required for this role 

You'll have the following responsibilities

Would be expected to take on the network architectural design role in a small team of network design engineers working through the complete lifecycle of:

• High and low-level design
• Device configuration
• Design verification
• Operational deployment
• Customer acceptance testing

Has technical authority for decision making in their own project area. Would be expected to work closely in collaboration with the following stakeholders: 

Platform design authority and colleagues with equivalent responsibilities for systems

• Security
• Transport
• Operational
• Project management
• Commercial aspects of the programme

You'll have the following skills & experience

Network design and delivery engineer with experience with medium- to large-scale, high-availability, high-integrity IP management networks as part of larger delivery programmes. Capable of taking customer requirements and architecting a cost-effective IP network to meet those functional and non-functional requirements.

Demonstrates a good understanding of network management, network operations, optical transport networks and cyber-security to work with other engineers and managers specialising in those areas to deliver a complete working solution.

Can estimate performance and scaling requirements and then identify and select cost-effective network devices that meet those requirements. Able to take network design and cost data and convert this into financial cost models in support of the programme management team; can similarly estimate design, test, and deployment effort requirements for network delivery.

Technical skills likely to be appropriate:

IPv4 routing for resilient, medium- to large-scale networks, e.g., OSPF or IS-IS; BGP.

Firewall/IPS configuration and rule management.

Network device security, configuration hardening and vulnerability management.

First-hop security functions (e.g., DHCP snooping, IEEE 802.1X).

Data centre switching for virtualised compute (e.g., VMware).

Benefits

• Discounted BT Broadband, TV & mobile packages and BT products
• On target Bonus
• Share options and 10% pension contribution
• Professional development and paid for industry certifications/qualifications
• Flexible benefits/rewards including dental insurance, healthcare, gym memberships etc.
• Well-being support for you and your family
• 3 days paid volunteering a year
• Flexible and smart working (subject to business needs)