Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required

We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with public sector and consulting experience to join IBM and help drive our DevOps initiatives. In this role, you will lead smaller projects, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to shaping IBM's technical direction in modern DevOps practices. You will also be involved throughout the full DevOps lifecycle, with a focus on automating and streamlining software delivery pipelines using current tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Work with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Configure and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Nagios.

• Manage log collection and aggregation platforms such as the ELK Stack or Splunk.

• Apply security best practices in line with DevOps principles.

• Implement and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes., 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.

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• • Proven experience in DevOps practices, including designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CloudFormation.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash and Python; experience developing infrastructure and deployment automation for AWS environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, including building, managing, and deploying Docker containers and orchestrating workloads using Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture and operations with deep exposure to AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Excellent knowledge of Git and Git-based workflows, supporting collaborative development and automated deployment processes.
• Experienced in identifying, analyzing, and remediating security vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, containerized environments, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, ECR scanning, or SAST/DAST tools).

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 enhanced Security Check (eSC) or enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

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 DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate, Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

• 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 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 our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

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., IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet., In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better., IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. 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.