AddressLinux System Engineer
Job Req ID: 22728
Posting Date: 20 Mar 2024
Function: Engineering
Unit: Networks
Location: Northern Command Centre, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Salary: Attractive Salary + Bonus + Additional Benefits
Working Locations: Sheffield, Manchester and Birmingham.
Working Style: 3 days office, 2 days anywhere.
Why this job matters
We are looking for 4* Linux Infrastructure Engineering Specialists to join our team and support us to build and ensure the performance, availability and security of Enterprise Cloud / Network Cloud & Legacy computing infrastructure. You will be managing key stakeholder and customer relationships and providing operational excellence and leadership across NC, EC & legacy platforms. Also play a critical role in managing complex Linux systems, as well as supporting and optimizing our infrastructure using technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes. This position requires strong technical expertise, excellent problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of Linux operating systems.
What you’ll be doing
- Undertake routine daily activities and be accountable for system design, build, testing, validation, maintenance, and ongoing support of components within Network Cloud and Enterprise Cloud.
- Undertake the implementation of new and enhanced technology that aligns to customers’ strategic direction
- Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the Linux environment, including system, application, and network components, to ensure optimal system efficiency.
- System Security: Implement and maintain security measures and best practices to protect Linux servers from potential threats, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access.
- Automation and Configuration Management: Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and automation scripts to streamline administrative tasks, configuration management, and deployment processes.
- Containerization and Orchestration: Utilise containerisation and Kubernetes for orchestration to manage and scale containerised applications effectively.
- Participate in technology lifecycle planning, including contributing to the development of the technology roadmaps and Platform Health Assessments.
- Deliver the required documentation, knowledge transfer and training to successfully land new solutions into the support organisation.
- Drive the implementation of core and cloud infrastructure security to manage risks and exposure.
- Provide support for platform incidents
- Mentor other Engineering professionals, helping to improve the team’s abilities by acting as a technical resource.
- Continuously develop and share knowledge with the team on emerging trends and changes.
What you'll bring
Mandatory:
- Strong knowledge of Linux configuration management and automation including Ansible.
- Knowledge of Linux filesystems and storage including LVM, iSCSI, file access control, partitioning and RAID.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills, covering both functional and performance issues.
- Good knowledge of Linux container technologies including Docker.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, VMware.
- Good knowledge of Linux networking including bridging, routing, iptables and diagnostic tools such as tcpdump, ping etc.
- Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of tasks using various shell and scripting languages (Ansible/bash/ Python)
- An understanding of code review and familiarity with tools like GitLab & Jenkins
- Familiarity with enterprise grade server hardware (Dell/Cisco).
- Familiarity with data centre networking technologies.
- Familiarity with databases such as MySQL / PostgreSQL, particularly their storage requirements and backup models.
- Familiarity with OpenStack
- Ability to self-manage priorities and take a flexible approach to implementation.
- Ability to produce technical focused documentation/guides for a variety of audiences.
- General knowledge of change control and operational security processes and the importance of these processes to the integrity of services you operate.
Nice to have:
- Strong interest in researching new technologies.
- Strong knowledge of machine virtualisation, ideally KVM.
- Actively participated in strategy setting sessions
Your Benefits
At BT, we entertain, educate and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration and inclusivity.
Benefits of working for BT include:
- Tailored training and development opportunities to continue to build your career
- 10% on target bonus
- 25 days’ annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
- Direct Share scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages BT TV, including TNT Sports and NOW entertainment
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
- Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
- 3 volunteering days per year
- Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Careers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
