Research Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure CoE

Overview

In this hands-on role, you will research and prototype how telco compute infrastructure can evolve to boost performance, resiliency, and energy efficiency while supporting AI workloads. You’ll work within BT’s Cloud Infrastructure Centre of Excellence, turning ideas into lab experiments and proofs of concept, and collaborating across BT to shape practical, scalable cloud-enabled telecoms. Expect cross-functional collaboration, lab-driven evaluation, and opportunities to influence future infrastructure choices with data-backed insights.

Pay / Benefits

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to online private GP 24/7
• Carers leave up to 2 weeks
• 18 weeks full pay and 8 weeks half pay maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Discounted BT products
• 5% employee pension contribution with 10% employer contribution

Responsibilities

• Contribute to ongoing research projects and explore new ideas for cloud infrastructure challenges
• Conduct hands-on lab-based evaluation and develop proofs of concept for new technologies
• Form hypotheses, prototype solutions, and test their practical viability to advance technical maturity
• Investigate how applications, services and AI workloads perform on compute infrastructure and identify optimization opportunities
• Explore security and resilience enhancements for compute infrastructure
• Assess business benefits of technical findings alongside performance gains

Key requirements

• Telco cloud experience with NFV, SDN, Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD
• Understanding of data centre design and hardware building blocks for compute, storage and networking
• Practical Linux skills to support hands-on experimentation
• Strong networking fundamentals for cloud and telecom infrastructure

• Excellent communicator with peers and managers
• Ability to work autonomously while aligning with team priorities
• Analytical mindset with data-driven decision making
• NFV
• SDN
• Kubernetes

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