Principal Platform Engineer at BT

Job Description:

Unprecedented scale and opportunity @ BT Digital

Consumer is the largest telco in the industry. With over 20k employees and 34 million customers, we generate over £10bn in revenue. This offers enormous opportunities for our people and to be No. 1 in the market. Our Consumer Unit exists as three household brands - BT, EE & Plusnet from which collectively we generate more revenue than any other part of BT. Our brilliant brands are all beautiful individually. Each has unique attributes that cater to very different segments of the market. This makes our goal possible; to create a connection in every home in the UK by 2025.

This role seeks out to Lead on innovation and delivers capability for internal development teams that is critical to the continued releasing of new products and services for today and the future.

Skills Required:

• Infrastructure as code
• Continuous Integration and Deployment Strategies
• FluxCD
• Istio
• Gitlab CI
• Crossplane
• Terraform
• AWS
• Kubernetes

Accountabilities:

• Lead the Design and develop platform systems to support digital experiences using open source and cloud technology
• Lead an agile team to turn complex business needs into elegant solutions
• Ensure design reviews happen to ensure solutions fit our architecture, security, scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Support code processes and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
• Provide engineering leadership and contribute to our engineering community and standards
• Provide assistance to QA and support colleagues as needed to resolve problems
• Provide reporting and appropriate escalation updates into Leadership teams and Stakeholders
• Ensure costs are in check and deliver efficiencies to help support business outcomes and goals

Does this sound like you? Please do get in touch for a discussion if you'd like to find out more. Thanks for reading.

Company Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays),
• 10% on target bonus,
• Life Assurance,
• Pension scheme,
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.,
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans,
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages,
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids,
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Interview Process

• Discussion with Talent Acquisition
• Intro meet with hiring manager and another member of the team
• Techno functional final stage interview with hiring lead and another member of the team