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Cloud Engineering Principal

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BT Group

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About the role

Cloud is now critical to how BT delivers services across the organisation. As cloud adoption continues to grow, so does the need to ensure investment is transparent, commercially effective and providing measurable value.

We're looking for a Cloud FinOps Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership for our FinOps capability within the Cloud Centre of Excellence. This role sits at the intersection of cloud engineering, architecture and finance. You'll help shape how BT manages cloud spend across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, while influencing decisions that affect multiple business units across the organisation.

You'll inherit a specialist team of FinOps engineers and work closely with finance directors, architects, engineering teams and cloud providers to improve automation, visibility, governance and financial accountability across our cloud estate. For someone who enjoys solving complex cloud challenges, influencing senior stakeholders and building scalable FinOps capabilities, this role offers genuine impact.

The scale here is different. You'll work across one of the UK's largest cloud estates, influencing how cloud investment decisions are made across multiple business units.

You'll lead an established specialist team, work closely with senior finance and technology stakeholders, and help shape how BT continues to mature its FinOps capability.

This is a highly visible position that combines strategy, technical leadership and hands-on delivery. You'll have the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on how cloud value is managed across the organisation.

What you'll be doing

Define and evolve BT's FinOps strategy, standards and operating model.
Lead and mentor a specialist FinOps engineering team.
Drive improvements in cloud cost visibility, forecasting and financial governance.
Build and enhance automation that improves efficiency and cloud spend management.
Partner with engineering and architecture teams to embed cost awareness throughout the cloud lifecycle.
Influence investment and architecture decisions through commercial and technical insight.
Work with Finance, Procurement and business leaders to translate cloud consumption into business value.
Help BT advance FinOps maturity across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Essential Skills / Experience

Strong FinOps experience within large-scale cloud environments.
Experience operating across AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
Proven ability to provide technical leadership, influence stakeholders and drive outcomes across large organisations.

Desirable Skills / Experience

FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional certification.
Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform).
Python or automation scripting.
Cloud cost allocation and chargeback models.
Cloud governance and policy-as-code.
Financial forecasting and budgeting experience.
Observability and cloud reporting tooling.
Agile delivery experience using Jira.

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:

Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
15% on target annual bonus
Private healthcare for you and your family
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.

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.

About BT Group

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