AWS - DevOps Engineer - SC MOD Required

IBM

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As an AWS DevOps Engineer, you will support IBM’s public sector clients by designing, automating, deploying, and maintaining secure cloud and non-cloud environments. You will work across the software development lifecycle to enable reliable application delivery, continuous integration, testing, and deployment.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

  • Design, configure, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and hybrid environments.
  • Install, configure, and manage DevOps automation tools across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and application deployments.
  • Develop automation and deployment scripts using Python, Shell/Bash, and other scripting languages.
  • Package, deploy, and support applications across development, test, and production environments.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management practices.
  • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to improve software quality.
  • Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and deployment issues.
  • Apply SDLC, Agile, DevOps, and secure-by-design principles.
  • Work collaboratively with developers, architects, testers, security teams, and public sector clients.
  • Ensure solutions align with relevant security, governance, and industry standards.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Experience in AWS, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering.
  • Practical experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services and deploying applications to cloud environments.
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, and configuration management.
  • Scripting experience with Python, Shell/Bash, or similar languages.
  • Experience with Git/source control and software development processes.
  • Understanding of automated testing and continuous integration.
  • Knowledge of SDLC methodologies and DevOps best practices.
  • Experience troubleshooting technical issues across application and infrastructure environments.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • AWS certification such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer.
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/Amazon EKS.
  • Knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Experience working in public sector, government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.

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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