AWS DevOps Engineer — Public Sector Cloud & Automation

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to deliver cloud migration, modernisation, and adoption initiatives for public sector clients, using AWS, DevOps practices, and IaC. You will work across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams to build secure, scalable cloud solutions with automation, monitoring, and CI/CD at the core.

The role involves collaboration, incident management, and continuous improvement in a regulated public environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with IaC using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
• Scripting and automation using Bash/Shell and ANT.
• Experience with Git, Docker, and Liquibase for deployment automation.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence within Agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS, ECS/EKS).
• Understanding of DevOps principles, automation, monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure: Build, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS environments via IaC.
• Cloud Migration: Support migration and modernisation of applications onto AWS.
• CI/CD & Automation: Develop/maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Infrastructure & Security: Implement scalable, secure solutions per standards.
• Monitoring & Operations: Monitor environments, troubleshoot, ensure reliability.
• Incident Management: Lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve automation and processes.

Skills

AWS cloud services

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting Bash

Git-based workflows

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile delivery

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Liquibase

Docker

Confluence

JIRA

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Consulting is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to deliver cloud migration, modernisation, and adoption initiatives for public sector clients, using AWS, DevOps practices, and IaC. You will work across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams to build secure, scalable cloud solutions with automation, monitoring, and CI/CD at the core.

The role involves collaboration, incident management, and continuous improvement in a regulated public environment.