Azure & OpenShift Cloud Platform Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation; Abbots Worthy; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to build and operate highly reliable systems on OpenShift and Azure. You will implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and infrastructure improvements using GitHub Actions, Argo CD and Tekton.

You will support observability with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and ServiceNow, coordinate incident response, and drive long-term reliability through automation and engineering improvements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and containerised applications.
• Expertise with Microsoft Azure cloud services, networking, identity, and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience implementing and managing observability platforms using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana.
• Proven track record improving system availability, performance, and reliability in production environments.
• Strong skills in automation and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Bash, Python, or Go.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Experienced at solving problems and troubleshooting, owning incidents and problems through to root cause
• A passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills

Responsibilities

• Build and operate highly reliable and scalable systems using OpenShift and Azure
• Implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and infrastructure improvements using GitHub Actions, Argo CD and Tekton
• Supporting the observability stack, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting using Prometheus, Loki, Grafana and ServiceNow
• Coordinate incident response efforts, assisting with root cause analysis, and drive long-term corrective strategies.
• Identify reliability risks and create plans to eliminate operational bottlenecks through automation and engineering improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, security, architecture, and platform engineering, to deliver reliable services.
• Maintain and manage technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Work with the team to create operational runbooks
• Influence infrastructure and platform roadmap decisions through data, analysis, and best-practice guidance.
• Able to use Agile Framework (Sprints and cadences) with the use of Jira and Confluence.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Azure

CI/CD

Observability

Prometheus

Loki

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Scripting

Python

Go

Bash

Microservices

Distributed systems

Incident management

Automation

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Tekton

Jira

Confluence

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to build and operate highly reliable systems on OpenShift and Azure. You will implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and infrastructure improvements using GitHub Actions, Argo CD and Tekton.

You will support observability with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and ServiceNow, coordinate incident response, and drive long-term reliability through automation and engineering improvements.