IBM

Introduction

We are IBM Consulting, a global team that builds and runs critical systems for clients across industries. Our DevOps engineers do not just maintain infrastructure; they shape how software gets delivered at scale. Junior or not, you will be working on real projects from day one.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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

Want to build the pipelines that ship real software to real users? As a Junior DevOps Engineer at IBM Consulting, you will be right in the middle of it: automating deployments, shaping infrastructure and making sure things actually run in production. You will work closely with development, operations and security teams in an agile setup where your input matters from day one. We deliver strategic projects for clients across Europe and around the world. Junior or not, the work is real. We care about growth and we will invest in yours.

In line with applicable pay transparency requirements, we are sharing the starting annual base pay (gross per year).

This amount is the starting pay for the position, based on a full-time schedule over a full calendar year. The final offer may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience, as permitted under applicable local law.

At IBM, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes

• Opportunities for personal and career development
• Additional paid time off
• Comprehensive health coverage, including critical illness, life, and disability insurance, plus access to a medical center
• 100% paid sick leave for up to 60 days
• MultiSport card
• Exclusive IBM discounts on sports, travel, cultural activities, shopping, health, beauty, and dining

If you are successfully selected for offer, we will share the full details of the compensation package and benefits with the offer letter

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Key Requirements

• CI/CD is not new to you: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Tekton or Bitbucket
• SonarQube or similar code quality tools: either hands-on already or ready to learn
• You understand how release processes and deployment automation work in agile environments
• Terraform or Ansible: some hands-on time already or genuine excitement to start
• GitOps rings a bell and you want to go deeper
• You’re comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes, with some exposure to Helm charts
• You’re not scared of networking concepts and Service Mesh patterns
• Monitoring is on your radar: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Instana, Dynatrace or similar
• You have some exposure to relational or NoSQL databases
• You can script in Bash or PowerShell and read your way through Python or Java code
• You understand the basics of IAM, secrets management, encryption and certificate handling
• Agile environments are familiar territory: Scrum or Kanban
• You know your way around Linux and/or Windows administration

Soft Skills

• You work well with others: developers, QA, operations, security. Cross-functional and Cross-Culture is the norm here with a team across the globe
• When something breaks in production, you dig in instead of stepping back
• You explain technical things clearly, whether talking to a developer or a client stakeholder
• You spot things that could run better and say it out loud. We like that.
• The tech landscape shifts fast. You are curious enough to keep up and excited enough to enjoy it.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• Jira and Confluence are part of your toolkit (or similar tools)
• Some exposure to middleware or integration solutions
• You’re familiar with how major cloud platforms work: AWS, Azure or GCP
• ITIL or similar operational frameworks ring a bell

Sound like your kind of challenge? Send us your CV. We’d love to hear from you.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with cloud computing, application migration or DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience automating infrastructure, testing or deployment tasks
• Contributions to open-source projects or active use of open-source tooling
• German language skills are a plus in our multilingual project environment

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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