Software Engineering AWS DevOps Engineer - eSC or eDV Cleared Professional Multiple Cities

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

• Working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Setting up and maintaining monitoring and alerting tools (for example, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
• Managing log management and aggregation tools such as the ELK Stack or Splunk
• Applying and maintaining security best practices aligned with DevOps principles
• Implementing and supporting Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience applying DevOps practices and building CI/CD pipelines within AWS environments
• Strong scripting skills using languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Hands‑on exposure to containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, on AWS
• Solid understanding of AWS cloud services and how to design, deploy, and manage workloads on the platform
• Excellent knowledge of version control systems such as Git
• Experience identifying, mitigating, and resolving security vulnerabilities within AWS‑based solutions.

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

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK Stack, Datadog).
• Passion for continuous learning and professional development.

Desirable Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Equal‑Opportunity 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.

Other Relevant Job Details

AWS DevOps Engineer - eSC or eDV Cleared

Job ID

110498

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

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