Software Engineering Specialist

Job Details

Job title

 Software Engineering specialist

Reports to (job)

Security Engineering Lead

Team

Security Engineering

Location

Birmingham

Job Dimensions

Software engineer responsible for design, implementation, test and continuous deployment of capabilities to protect BT

Hours

Full time

No. Direct Reports

0

Career Level

D

Why BT Group?

We’ve always been an organization with purpose; we connect for good.   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 - the values we live by. Creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale, capable of achieving great things.  From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe, and secure, to delivering large scale innovative technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. 

Today, in this fast changing, always on, digital world, our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before.  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.

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.
 

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

The skills you’ll need to succeed

·        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

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

Leadership accountabilities

Experience you’d be expected to have

·        Owning outcomes

·        Delivering for the customer

·        Building for the future

·        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.

Key decisions

The BT way

·        Decide on new ways of working to drive