Bt Sport Jobs – Broadcast Network Design In Norwich

Overview

Position Title: Broadcast Network Design

Company: BT

Location: Norwich, UK

Job Description:

Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow. Join us today and release yours.
There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business.

Secondly, the one thing the pandemic has taught us is that a lot of current and future colleagues, where and when possible, want to embrace hybrid working. Therefore, we are introducing smart working at BT. Smart working means having the flexibility to choose, as a team, how and where you work depending on your team’s deliverables and needs; when you are at your shared core location to connect with others and when not.

Responsibilities:

• To provide Engineering Design leadership and steer, guide and support in managing aspects of the Media and Broadcast areas; specifically in the design of layer 1, 2, 3 connectivity.
• Ongoing & frequent collaboration with a wider team including operations, systems and customers.
• Driving Transformation activities across the Business Unit – seeking positive outcomes from adoption of Agile methodologies and Automation of repeatable tasks.
• Managing suppliers to understand their product capability and provide sign off for connection to the network.
• To provide a mentoring-type role and be acknowledged as the Subject Matter Expert within Media and Broadcast on network solutions.
• Makes expert recommendations to technical and business decision makers.
• To continually drive for outstanding customer experience, and engender and lead an absolutely customer focused approach to doing business.
• Provide Major bid and engineering support to Media and Broadcast Area and 3rd Line support of the Service and Network Platforms to Operations.
• Working with wider BT teams such as procurement on RFI / RFPs for cost effective network solutions.

Requirements:

• Ideally you will be from a Service provider or Fin-Tec background
• Solid knowledge of IP, MPLS & Multicast technologies.
• You will have had extensive hands-on experience of Cisco and/or Juniper network equipment.
• You will have a proven track record of end to end Network Design and solutions – being able to understand existing network designs and customer solutions and evolving them based on bespoke requirements.
• Knowledge of designing high availability network topologies to achieve the required diversity / separacy to meet the required SLA; understanding of the impact of a link failure on customer service; evaluation of supplier Ethernet product capabilities.
• Proven ability to produce High level & Low level Design solutions.
• Able to be a lead contributor individually and provide direction to others.
• Experience of Cisco and/or Juniper networking equipment
• Experience of designing carrier/service-provider IP networks.
• Experience of leading RFPs, Vendor Selection and winning new business activities from a Design perspective.
• Experience of designing high availability domestic and international networks
• Preferable: Technical Experience in a TV/broadcast organisation.
• Preferable: Ideally B.Eng / M.Eng Degree or equivalent industry experience