Cloud Platform Engineer: Azure & OpenShift Expert

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + pension

Private medical & dental cover

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to build reliable, scalable systems on OpenShift and Azure. You will implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling, and support the observability stack with Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.

You will coordinate incident response, drive long‑term improvements and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver resilient services. A strong cloud and IaC background is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes and containerised apps.
• Expertise in Azure cloud services, networking and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience building and managing observability with Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.
• Proven track record improving availability, performance and reliability in production.
• Strong automation and IaC skills (Terraform, Ansible or equivalent).
• Proficient scripting in Bash, Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, scalable systems using OpenShift and Azure.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines and tooling (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Tekton).
• Support observability with metrics, logs, dashboards and alerts.
• Lead incident response and drive root cause analysis.
• Identify bottlenecks and automate improvements to reliability.
• Collaborate across development, security and platform teams.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and runbooks.
• Influence roadmap decisions through data and best practices.
• Work in Agile sprints with Jira and Confluence.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Azure cloud

CI/CD automation

Automation & IaC

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Distributed systems

Incident response

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Azure

Prometheus

Loki

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Tekton

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to build reliable, scalable systems on OpenShift and Azure. You will implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling, and support the observability stack with Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.

You will coordinate incident response, drive long‑term improvements and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver resilient services. A strong cloud and IaC background is essential.