Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres 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 ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

As an AWS DevOps Engineer at IBM, you'll work with clients to co-create solutions to major real-world challenges by using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products to translate system requirements into the design and development of customized systems. In your role, you may be responsible for:

• Working across the entire system architecture to design, develop, and support high quality, scalable products and interfaces for our clients.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define technical specifications for generative AI projects.

• Employing IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.

• Working with a variety of relational databases (SQL, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js, AngularJS, React, Ember.js, Bootstrap, and JQuery).

• Creating everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a viable product.

Required technical and professional expertise

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage AWS DevOps services, including CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Lambda.

• Configure and maintain version control using Git and GitHub.

• Implement and oversee continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize development processes and tooling.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in AWS DevOps environments.

• Ensure all DevOps practices comply with public sector regulations and standards.

• Mentor team members on AWS and DevOps best practices.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.

• Professional experience as a AWS DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS services.

• Proven experience in the public sector or government projects, preferably in a similar role.

• Proficiency in AWS services, including AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Lambda.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

• Knowledge of public sector regulations and standards relevant to software development and DevOps.

Desirable Certifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)