At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
* 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 pension plan through salary sacrifice.
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
* Build, automate, and operate container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O.
* Deploy and manage infrastructure across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Red Hack).
* Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native IaC tools.
* Implement high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
* Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support resilient delivery.
* Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations to container platforms.
* Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance automation, performance, and security.
* Depending on seniority, contribute to technical leadership, shape DevOps practices, and mentor engineers.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
* Solid hands‑on experience in Linux engineering, AWS, and modern container platforms.
* Operating and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, scaling, networking, upgrades, and security.
* Practical experience with Docker and CRI‑O container runtimes.
* Experience administering OpenShift and supporting migrations to container platforms.
Cloud Platforms (AWS‑Focused)
* Strong experience with AWS services, with the ability to work across other clouds such as Azure or GCP when required.
* Exposure to hybrid and on‑prem environments, including modernisation of legacy systems.
* Understanding of VPC design, IAM and identity controls, and hybrid networking.
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
* Experience using Terraform and/or Ansible for Linux platform automation.
* Familiarity with AWS CloudFormation or other cloud‑native IaC tools.
* Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Tekton.
Observability and Reliability
* Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.
* Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and resilience approaches.
* Awareness of SRE and GitOps methods.
Security and Compliance
* Knowledge of platform security, Linux hardening, secrets management, and identity tooling.
* Experience integrating security controls into build and deployment pipelines.
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).
Preferred technical and professional experience
* A strong foundation in Linux systems administration, with supporting knowledge in areas such as networking, security, or databases.
* Experience running and supporting production workloads on AWS, including on‑call support, incident response, and root‑cause analysis.
* Hands‑on automation of security or compliance tasks on Linux or AWS platforms, such as vulnerability remediation, scanning, or policy‑as‑code.
* Experience integrating traditional Linux infrastructure with AWS services and containerised environments.
* Ability to collaborate effectively with architecture, development, operations, and security teams.
Desirable Certifications
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
* AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
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.
Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer – eSC or eDV Clearance Required
Job ID
110327
City / Township / Village
State / Province
Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester
Country
United Kingdom
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Software Engineering
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
Shift
General (daytime)
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