Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration across the globe. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the opportunity to create meaningful change and deliver real business value.

At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver measurable results. Our culture of growth and empathy supports your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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

As a DevOps Cloud Engineer, you will help design, implement, and maintain modern cloud environments that are scalable, reliable, secure, and automated. You will work closely with development, operations, security, and client teams to improve deployment processes, enhance cloud infrastructure, and support the implementation of DevOps and DevSecOps practices across projects.

This role is ideal for candidates with junior to medior experience who want to build their expertise in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, container platforms, and operational excellence in enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform
  • Support the implementation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and related automation tooling
  • Help manage and optimize containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes platforms such as EKS or AKS
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve application deployment, performance, reliability, and operational readiness in cloud environments
  • Monitor infrastructure and applications, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to high availability and service reliability
  • Apply security best practices across cloud environments and delivery pipelines, including IAM, TLS/mTLS, secrets management, certificates, and secure configuration
  • Support infrastructure automation through scripting and reusable templates
  • Contribute to observability and operational monitoring using modern logging, metrics, and alerting solutions
  • Participate in cloud modernization and migration activities, including infrastructure and application transition initiatives
  • Support database-related migration activities where relevant, including collaboration on migrations from legacy database platforms to cloud-managed services such as PostgreSQL
  • Continuously learn, evaluate, and recommend new tools and practices that improve efficiency, security, and scalability

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

  • Experience or strong practical knowledge in a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, System Engineer, or similar technical role
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud services, including core infrastructure components such as compute, networking, identity and access management, and load balancing
  • Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool; Terraform preferred
  • Familiarity with containerization using Docker and with Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes services such as EKS or AKS
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar
  • Basic to intermediate scripting skills in Bash, Shell, PowerShell, or Python
  • Understanding of core networking concepts such as VPC/VNet, subnets, DNS, firewalls/security groups, routing, and load balancing
  • Knowledge of cloud and DevOps security fundamentals, including IAM, secrets management, encryption, certificate handling, and secure deployment practices
  • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability concepts
  • Good problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Professional working proficiency in English

Nice to Have

  • Experience with both AWS and Azure in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments
  • Familiarity with Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, or other deployment/GitOps tools
  • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ELK/OpenSearch, or OpenTelemetry
  • Exposure to DevSecOps practices and tools such as vulnerability scanning, container image scanning, secrets scanning, or policy validation
  • Familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or similar secrets-management solutions
  • Experience with managed databases or migration support activities, including PostgreSQL
  • Knowledge of Oracle, SQL, or PL/SQL in migration or support scenarios
  • Exposure to service mesh solutions such as Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh
  • Awareness of cost optimization / FinOps principles in cloud environments
  • AWS or Azure certifications are an advantage

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS or Azure
  • Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
  • Demonstrated experience with CI/CD automation and deployment pipelines
  • Demonstrated experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Demonstrated ability to work in collaborative, agile, and client-facing environments
  • Interest in continuous learning and building expertise across cloud, automation, security, and platform engineering

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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