Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Future Now Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a skilled AWS DevOps engineer who will be responsible for the implementation of AWS services configuration within the customer's tenant.

Core responsibilities include:

  • Designing and operating AWS-based cloud infrastructure (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Load Balancers)
  • Managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters (networking, autoscaling, security, resource usage)
  • Building infrastructure using Terraform and IaC best practices
  • Supporting containerized environments with Docker
  • Implementing GitLab CI pipelines and GitOps workflows
  • Supporting data platforms (Apache Hive, Impala, Ranger) and writing optimized SQL
  • Developing automation and tooling in Python
  • Troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment issues
  • Collaborating cross functionally to improve reliability, security, and delivery

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

This role focuses on designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms on AWS, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern CI/CD practices. The engineer works closely with engineering and data teams to enable reliable deployments, optimize performance, and improve operational excellence.

  • Certification in AWS Administration: Certified in AWS Administration, with a strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation.
  • Experience with Containerized Applications: Experienced in designing and deploying containerized applications on AWS, leveraging expertise in AWS Component services for Compute, Storage, Networking, and Monitoring.
  • Experience with Hybrid Cloud Environments: Experienced in administering hybrid cloud environments, configuring HA/DR, and managing Kubernetes clusters, applying knowledge of Storage, Compute, and Security Services.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker: Experienced in utilizing Kubernetes and Docker to manage application lifecycles, deployed clusters, and orchestration best practices.
  • Experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Experienced in ensuring seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Nice-to-Have Skills:

  • Exposure to application development platforms (e.g. Python)
  • Experience with data platforms and SQL (e.g. Imapala, Ranger, Apache Hive)
  • A broader knowledge of additional AWS services beyond the listed core ones

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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