Essential Skills / Experience

• Telco cloud: Knowledge of running telecoms workloads on compute-based infrastructure, including Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN), Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD.
• Compute infrastructure: Understanding of data centre design and the hardware building blocks of compute, storage and networking, including how they fit together.
• Linux: Practical Linux skills to support hands-on infrastructure evaluation and experimentation.
• Networking fundamentals: Understanding of the networking principles underpinning cloud and telecoms infrastructure.

You'll be comfortable taking responsibility for your work, trying new approaches and progressing experiments without needing detailed direction at every step, while staying aligned with the team's priorities.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Software programming skills that complement your infrastructure knowledge.
• Research experience, or experience in a cloud or networking role where you've developed and tested new ways of doing things. A PhD is not essential.
• Awareness of how AI affects infrastructure requirements, including GPUs and accelerated compute.
• Expert communicator: regularly presents to peers and managers about their research and area of technical expertise.
• Experienced in open innovation: Skilled in patenting, technical publications, conference presentations etc.
• Knowledge around secure computing including attestation, cyber -resilience, memory safety.
• Strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

About BT Group

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.