Cloud Specialist (Ipswich)

Cloud Specialist 
You’ve got opportunities 
Joining our cloud delivery team, you’ll be working within a fast paced, constantly evolving team, that delivers world class secure cloud solutions that make a real difference to our customers. 
The team is customer focused so you’ll have the opportunity to work directly with end customers, understand their requirements, and lead the design of cloud solutions that make a significant difference in protecting the society in which we live.  
You’ll have the opportunity to be deeply hands on in delivery, as well as help support and develop less experienced members of the team, using your own cloud and professional experience to support their ongoing professional development.
You’ll have numerous opportunities to grow and develop your career, as we actively look to support our team’s professional development, especially in an area as ever changing as cloud. 

What you’ll do:
Provide the technical direction for the development and delivery of world class secure cloud-based solutions.
Work directly with our customers to understand their requirements and work collaboratively with them to define solutions. 
Lead the design of cloud based solutions as well as be hands on in their development as part of agile delivery teams. 
Translate architectural designs into infrastructure-as-code defined solutions.
Working with support teams to enable management and monitoring of cloud-based systems, and their ongoing support. 
Provide some third line support to deployed cloud-based solutions. 
Ensure compliance of cloud systems with security policies and regulatory requirements.
Either line manage or act as a technical mentor to others in the team, assisting them with their ongoing professional development.
Act as a cloud subject matter expert and evangelist, leading organisational cloud adoption strategies and embedding best practice approaches.

You’ll definitely:
Have deep expertise utilising cloud services, both compute and appropriate managed services. Primarily in AWS, but any expertise in Azure and GCP would be relevant as well.
Have experience with cloud architectures and the ability to appropriately apply the relevant techniques. For example, AWS Well Architected Framework and Event-driven workflows.
Be able to apply software engineering principles to complex systems at scale.
Have experience maintaining and operating capabilities through-life.
Have a desire to continually update, enhance and validate own skills.
Have experience implementing Infrastructure as code with either CloudFormation, Terraform or Python.
Have exposure to containerisation or Kubernetes.

You might even:
Have deep expertise managing infrastructure-as-code in multiple languages or constructs, for example using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or Python.
Have experience managing production Kubernetes clusters.
Have experience using scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, etc) to define processes and serverless functions.
Have experience with Micro-service and container based deployment strategies, and a zero trust authorization model.
Have experience with iterative full-stack MVC web development in appropriate languages (for example node.js or python).
Have experience with agile delivery processes.
Have experience in internal and external stakeholder management and engagement. 
Have some experience in either line managing a team or mentoring and developing less experienced members of the team, assisting in their ongoing professional development. 
Have some cloud certifications, though while desirable practical experience is more important.  

 What’s in it for you?
Career progression in BT Security and across BT with our internal development programme
Competitive salary
Location:         Ipswich, London or Cheltenham      
Weekly Hours:     37.5
Position Type:     Full Time
Contract:         Permanent

Why BT? 
Empowered, challenged, supported and rewarded, our people are the key to our success. Our people keep customers happy with great service. We’ve focused on creating an energising culture that makes BT an even better place to build a career. We’re at the top of our game, and this is your chance to join us.
We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future!