At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
Benefits
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
Responsibilities
* Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O.
* Deploy and maintain infrastructure in multi‑cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).
* Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native IaC tools.
* Implement HA/DR strategies, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
* Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for resilient delivery.
* Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations onto container platforms.
* Work with architects and developers to improve platform automation, performance, and security.
* Depending on seniority, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Containers & Orchestration
* Kubernetes cluster operations (deployments, scaling, security, networking, upgrades)
* Docker and CRI‑O runtime experience
* OpenShift administration and migration support
Cloud & Hybrid Platforms
* Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and familiarity with others
* Hybrid/on‑prem environments and legacy modernisation projects
* VPC/VNet design, IAM/identity management, hybrid connectivity
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
* Terraform and/or Ansible for platform automation
* CloudFormation, ARM or other cloud IaC tooling
* CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Tekton)
Observability & Reliability
* Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
* HA/DR patterns, load balancing, and resilience engineering
* Understanding of SRE and GitOps practices
Security & Compliance
* Platform security, configuration hardening, secrets governance, identity tooling
* Integrating security controls into pipelines (shift‑left/shift‑right)
Preferred technical and professional experience
* A broad foundation across multiple domains such as systems administration, networking, security, or databases.
* Experience supporting production platforms (on‑call, incident response, root‑cause analysis).
* Hands‑on automation of security or compliance workflows (vulnerability remediation, scanning, policy‑as‑code).
* Experience bridging traditional infrastructure with cloud‑native and container platforms.
* Comfort collaborating across architecture, development, operations, and security.
Pre‑employment screening
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).
Employment 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.
Equal opportunity employer statement
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.
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