IT & Software

Research Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure CoE

BT Group

Ipswich · Suffolk · United Kingdom

Overview

In this hands-on research role, you explore how compute infrastructure for telco cloud can evolve to boost performance, resiliency, and energy efficiency while supporting AI workloads. You will work within BT's Cloud Infrastructure Centre of Excellence to turn ideas into lab experiments and proofs of concept, examining hardware–software interactions and their implications for BT. You’ll collaborate across teams to advance practical research at the intersection of cloud, telecoms, and AI. This role offers a chance to shape future infrastructure at scale and influence BT’s AI-ready compute strategy.

Pay / Benefits
  • 10% on target annual bonus
  • Online private GP 24/7 for you and family
  • Carers leave up to 2 weeks
  • Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks full pay
  • Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
  • Holiday purchase scheme
Responsibilities
  • Contribute to ongoing research projects and develop new approaches to cloud infrastructure challenges
  • Perform hands-on lab evaluations and experiments with new technologies
  • Form hypotheses, build proofs of concept, and test practicality to advance technical maturity
  • Study how applications, services and AI workloads run on compute infrastructure to improve performance and energy efficiency
  • Explore methods to enhance security and resilience of compute infrastructure
  • Assess business benefits of findings alongside technical results
Key requirements
  • Telco cloud experience including NFV, SDN, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD
  • Understanding of data centre design and hardware for compute, storage, and networking
  • Practical Linux skills for infrastructure evaluation and experimentation
  • Fundamental networking knowledge underpinning cloud and telecoms infrastructure
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership, and align with team priorities
  • Excellent communicator
  • Independent and proactive
  • Data-driven decision making
  • NFV, SDN, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD
  • Compute infrastructure knowledge, data centre hardware
  • Linux proficiency

Reference: WJ-747_31019510

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