Overview
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.
In this role
You’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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 clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Security Engineering & Automation: Implement and embed security controls throughout CI/CD pipelines; enhance and maintain IaC (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation) to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure infrastructure deployments across AWS and Azure; integrate automated security scanning (SAST/DAST/SCA), secrets management, policy enforcement, base image hardening, and runtime protection into the delivery workflow.
- Cloud Security (AWS & Azure): Design, implement, and maintain security patterns that can be applied consistently across a large‑scale public‑sector digital screening programme; configure cloud‑native security tooling (guardrails, identity policies, network controls) to meet agreed security standards; collaborate on reusable libraries and toolsets to drive standardisation across teams.
- CI/CD & Platform Engineering: Deliver security improvements through changes to CI/CD and IaC repositories, version controlled alongside application code; build and refine pipelines that support automated testing, deployment, and governance across cloud environments; ensure continuous monitoring, detection, and remediation of vulnerabilities through integrated pipeline tooling.
- Disaster Recovery & Operational Readiness: Contribute to DR strategy by defining consistent runbooks, automated processes, and wargaming tools; ensure operational documentation is clear, repeatable, and usable by delivery and support teams.
- Collaboration & Delivery: Work hand‑in‑glove with product teams, architects, and infrastructure engineers to socialise patterns, build capability, and embed practices early; prioritise work based on cybersecurity risk assessments to deliver high‑value improvements first; support knowledge sharing, coaching, and embedding of security best practices across engineering teams.
Why This Role Matters
Your work will strengthen the security posture of a major national digital screening platform, ensuring consistency, resilience, and trustworthiness across dozens of critical public‑facing services. You’ll be instrumental in shaping secure engineering standards adopted across multiple teams and cloud environments.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Strong background in DevSecOps principles, including shift‑left security, automated testing, secure SDLC, and cloud‑native security engineering.
- Hands‑on experience with AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- Experience designing secure and scalable architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation.
- Experience integrating security tools into CI/CD (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, container scanning).
- Familiarity with container orchestration and security (Kubernetes/AKS/EKS).
- Strong understanding of identity, access, network, and policy enforcement across cloud platforms.
- Ability to document runbooks, DR processes, and operational guidance.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills across engineering, operations, and delivery teams.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- Experience contributing to or maintaining shared libraries or open‑source tooling.
- Knowledge of audit, compliance, and security frameworks.
- Experience in large public‑sector or regulated environments.
Eligibility
Must be eligible for SC clearance.
Location and Work Arrangement
London, City of London, United Kingdom – Hybrid (up to 80% of the week), general daytime shift.
EEO 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 also complies with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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