Cloud Control Plane Engineer: Kubernetes & Infra

IBM; Winchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in Winchester is seeking a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, to design and implement a distributed control plane for Confluent Cloud offerings. The role emphasizes collaboration, lightweight processes, and a strong on-call mindset.

You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and internal tooling to deliver scalable infrastructure while maintaining hands-on production readiness and ongoing support.

Qualifications

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems.
• Experience with one or more programming languages - Go, C++, Java, or Python.
• Experience in a full project lifecycle starting from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product as part of an on-call rota.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework - we have K8S contributors working with us internally
• Provision infrastructure using a mixture of Terraform and internal tooling and deploy your changes using Helm
• Thrive working iteratively in a fast-paced Scrum environment where you'll use our product and be very much DevOps driven
• You’ll be expected to not only ship code but also operate and support it before and after release - that includes having a deep understanding of what your code will run on

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Job description

IBM Software in Winchester is seeking a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, to design and implement a distributed control plane for Confluent Cloud offerings. The role emphasizes collaboration, lightweight processes, and a strong on-call mindset.

You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and internal tooling to deliver scalable infrastructure while maintaining hands-on production readiness and ongoing support.