Hiring for GCP Infra Cloud Engineer

Job Description

About this roleYou will be a part of the Data Management and Engineering team. The team are the custodians of the DATA&AI CDH cloud service offering being deployed onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role will be a part of the team spearheading the deployment of DATA&AI service in to GCP. The team are responsible for development, deployment and upkeep of the Cloud landing zone - a set of standardised services, security controls and patterns for adoption. The team build Cloud product lines to meet the features of application tenants. The team are also consulted in the implementation supporting the adoption of GCP services in solutions supporting our customer facing units.Youll have the following responsibilities
• Responsible for maintaining and extending the landing zone capabilities to support new business requirements and security considerations. Furthermore, standardising and packaging GCP services into the DATA&AI catalogue of services
• Innovating and extending the cloud engineering teams engineering quality through code management, build and deployment pipelines, adopt CI/CD to enhance the speed, reliability and repeatability of core common services features. You will put in place canary based solutions to prove the release of features and focus on quality to ensure we are successful in operating a platform at scale for Data&AI.
• Support and lay foundation for large scale migration from on-prem to Google cloud platform.
• Provide infrastructure solutions for complex cloud migrations and native cloud application developments.
• Deploy various GCP services including Projects, VPC, Firewall rules etc as and when required by the engineering teams
• Networking - Design and configure VPN- s, CDN- s, Interconnect, and DNS solutions
• Perform hands-on Identity & Access Management(IAM) in high availability, highly scalable environments
• Work on a variety of tools and functions including; GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, VPC, Subnets.
• Responsible for building, grooming the product backlog for the overall experience to drive value through iterative frequent releases
• Driving outcomes through agile collaborative processes and being able to estimate and plan multi-sprint features and alignment to quarterly outcomes
• Provides mentoring support and assurance of work of other engineers in a matrix squad structure.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information for the cloud community to consume driving home the improvements we are making to the self-service experience.
• Automating requests coming from Data Services teamto create various GCP services.
• Implementing best practice guardrails responsive, detective and preventative controls;
• Enabling GCP services in a secure compliant way
• Engineering security controls with automation using CloudFormation (and in future may extend to terraform)
• Be fully cost conscious and drive cost efficiency in everything we do
• Documenting and sharing experience on cloud adoption within the BT Technology engineering areas.
• Designing operational solutions to minimise the impact to end users of the platform during failures.
• Build blue/green and phased on-ramp patterns when introducing new features into service and able to design solutions that can auto-recover or self-heal.
• Working closely with a variety of IT teams across the business to deliver solutions onto a Google cloud platform this will range from being a consultant, to offering boiler plate templates and examples, through to building solutions with the IT teams directly.
• Working with designers and architects to shape the Cloud solutions in accordance with Google and BT s practices.
• Building cloud best practices and blog posts regularly contributing to Workplaces channel and Platform Wiki
• Collaborating with Google on new feature requests and issues
• Working in a team that designs, builds and runs our own products and services.
• Acting in an operational support role where incidents occur in the underlying cloud platform and you may form a part of a support rota.
Youll have the following skills & experience
• Excellent communication skills, often being able to compromise but draw out risks and constraints associated with solutions
• You will have a DevSecOps mindset, with security being job number one
• Be able to work independently and collaborate with other BT teams
• Have experience working as a part of a team using agile methodologies
• You will have extensive hands on experience of 1+ years of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar
• Have experience in the build of Cloud based infrastructures through IaC (Infrastructure as Code)and be competent in CloudFormation / Terraform
• You will have working knowledge of software engineering tools - Gitlab, Jenkins (or other CI/CD tools) and will be familiar with the equivalent services on GCP.
• Sound knowledge of Configuration management technologies such as YAML
• Have knowledge of how to apply both native Cloud monitoring services in GCP.
• You should also hold or be preparing for an GCP - Professional Network Engineer certification.
BenefitsCompetitive salary 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 10% on target bonus Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan Pension scheme Shares Plan Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etcCOVID-19 Notice: We ve changed our recruitment process so that we can continue to offer exciting opportunities in BT. We ve moved to virtual hiring until further notice - which includes video interviews and virtual onboarding, to make sure that we maintain candidate and employee safety.About BTBT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.Were now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And were on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.So, if youre interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours You can read more here about what its like to work at BTHow to ApplyIts easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Dont worry if you need to make changes - youll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application, *.

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