Site Reliability Engineering Specialist

Hiring Manager: Craig Judd

Role: Telecoms Security Act (TSA) Responsible Person

Career Grade: D

Location: Newcastle

Advertised Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

About the role

We're looking for a TSA Responsible Person to join our Enterprise Voice team and support a critical platform that underpins emergency services and directory services across the UK. You'll be responsible for helping the platform achieve and maintain compliance with the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021 and associated regulatory requirements.

This role combines technical security knowledge with governance and risk management, ensuring security controls are embedded across the platform and that regulatory obligations are met. You'll work closely with engineering, security, architecture and compliance teams to manage risk, support audits and drive ongoing compliance activities.

What you'll be doing

• Acting as the TSA Responsible Person, ensuring compliance with the Telecommunications (Security) Act and associated security requirements.
• Leading risk identification, assessment and remediation activities across the platform.
• Supporting vulnerability management, security patching, compliance reporting and audit preparation.
• Working with internal teams, suppliers and security stakeholders to ensure security controls are embedded within projects and operational processes.
• Maintaining documentation, risk assessments and evidence required for regulatory reviews and assurance activities.
• Supporting security incident management and ensuring regulatory reporting obligations are met where required.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Experience in telecoms, cyber security, network operations or security governance within a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of risk management, security controls, incident response and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting audits, assurance activities, evidence gathering and remediation tracking.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and reporting skills with the ability to influence across multiple teams.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Knowledge of the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021, telecoms security regulations or wider regulatory frameworks.
• Experience using compliance, monitoring or vulnerability assessment tools such as Qualys.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, PCI-P or ISO 27001.
• Experience within telecommunications, network infrastructure or critical national infrastructure environments.

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:

· 10% on target annual bonus

· 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 read

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.