Specialist Designer - Compute

Bt ,
Bristol, Bristol

Overview

Job Description

Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow. Join us today and release yours. Why this role matters In this role you will help design team to achieve its vision "To be the World's best Customer Consultancy Solution & Integration team" We enable BT to do good business, by focussing on three key areas: * To uplift our Customer Experience * To deliver Design Brilliance * To be Digital Leaders What you'll be doing * Lead and implement the design and development of Technical Solutions. * To provide analytical and innovative input to design/support projects undertaken wider Design Team * Assists team members in transformation strategy for a network or technology discipline in own area of expertise * Leads complex Data Centre / Cloud infrastructure (network, storage and compute) design/implementation and migration. * Participate in work stream planning process, including inception, technical design, development, testing and delivery of network solutions Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve high severity issues or problems. * As a Professional in your key technology area you will be expected to support multiple contracts for engineering advice and resolutions on design and configurations. * Collaborate with or guide internal or external teams during the problem resolution process as needed. * Create and review infrastructure designs, diagrams, and other program documentation to assist with development and preparation of cost estimates, and review vendor proposals. * Develop capacity planning models and load-balancing/redundancy solutions. * Understand Infrastructure requirements and provide High Level Design and Low-Level Design. * Plans and execute complex Infrastructure Upgrades and Migration activities * Could lead on a specific deliverable of a medium/complex scale project within a work package * To champion and specify the use of BT's strategic Choices for Design Tools, Systems and Templates across various teams * Lead the initiatives in looking for efficiencies in designs through use of patterns and templates, rather than bespoke requests * Interact with SME's globally and contributes L&D for the internal and external teams * Drive standardization across wider Solutions Team to ensure operational procedures are in place, maintained and followed as appropriate * Undertake work outside of direct responsibility when required on behalf of the leadership team * Should have strong desire to learn & catch up with new products, technologies & services which will enhance the Customers Environment We'll also need to see these on your CV Due to the variety of Technology in our Customer Solutions we would like to see several the Technology Areas and skillsets listed below in your CV but not necessarily all of them: * Technical leadership of at least one area/domain a BT Technology portfolio product set * Provide Planning, Designing, and Implementation around Cisco / Juniper products and solutions. * Expert in Compute Technology Area (AD, Group Policy, SQL, Virtualisation etc.) * Deep understanding of Routing Protocols : EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, MP-BGP, Multicast, AnyCast, DSCP/QoS, EVPN, VxLAN, OTV. * Good understanding on Load balancers like F5 * Good understanding on Firewall (ASA/Checkpoint/Palo Alto/SRX) * Good understanding of Secure VPN (i.e. IKE v2) * Good understanding of Mobile Device Management (MDM) - i.e. Blackberry, Intune, Workspace One. * UCS/Virtualization, Python, JSON programming will be good to have. * Good awareness of the impact of Voice & Video (RTP) technologies on a Customer Infrastructure. * Knowledge of virtualisation tools and concepts Other desirable capabilities are: * Ability to plan, prioritize, organize, schedule and execute assignments * Strong analytical skills, with strong problem-solving capability. * Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. Experience you would be expected to have * At least 5 years of direct, hands-on experience in Infrastructure design and Implementation on BT Data product lines. Why choose us? BT Enterprise We have around 1.2 million customers and serve over half the FTSE 350. Our customers range from big household names, government departments and public service organisations right through to small businesses and new start-ups. We cover both the communications and IT services markets. Overall we're focused on four main product markets: Fixed Voice; Mobility; Fibre and connectivity; networked IT services provided over the biggest UK network in both fixed and mobile communications. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences. We're creating an inclusive working culture where people from all backgrounds can succeed. That's why we welcome applications from all parts of the community.