DevOps Platform Engineer - Public Sector Consulting

IBM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Online shopping discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance

Group pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK is recruiting a DevOps Platform Engineer in Manchester to build, automate, and operate modern cloud-native and hybrid platforms across enterprise environments.

You’ll work with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform/Ansible to deliver scalable, secure solutions. The role involves collaboration with architects, security, and development teams, with seniority scaling by experience.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes and container platform experience across multi-cloud environments.
• OpenShift administration and migrations experience.
• IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible and cloud-native tooling familiarity.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Security-focused DevOps practices and shift-left security.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and operate container platforms across hybrid environments.
• Design and implement IaC using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud-native tools.
• Maintain HA/DR, load balancing, and resilient architectures.
• Integrate monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) into CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence DevOps practices.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Docker/CRI-O runtime

OpenShift administration

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

Terraform/Ansible

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins

Security and compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform Cloud

Job description

Introduction

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.

We offer:

• 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 Client Innovation Centers (Delivery 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

We’re looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and operate modern cloud‑native and hybrid platforms across enterprise environments.

Working across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies, you’ll design and deliver high‑performance, containerised platforms using Kubernetes, Docker/CRI‑O, and Infrastructure as Code.

This is a hands‑on consulting role, where you’ll work closely with developers, architects, security and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly reliable platforms for modern applications in complex environments.

We’re hiring across mid‑level through to senior/principal engineers, with responsibilities scaling based on experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native tooling
• Implement HA/DR patterns, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions
• Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
• Administer OpenShift clusters and support container platform migrations
• Collaborate with architects and developers to improve platform performance, automation, and security
• At senior levels, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

You’ll bring hands‑on experience in some of the areas below, along with a proactive mindset to learn and develop across the rest:

Containers & Orchestration

• Kubernetes cluster operations (deployments, scaling, security, networking, upgrades)
• Docker and/or CRI‑O runtime experience
• OpenShift administration and migration support

Cloud & Hybrid Platforms

• Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP), with exposure to others
• Hybrid/on‑prem environments and legacy modernisation
• VPC/VNet design, IAM and identity management, hybrid connectivity

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Terraform and/or Ansible for platform automation
• CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep or other cloud-native IaC tooling
• CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Tekton)

Observability & Reliability

• Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
• HA/DR patterns, load balancing, and resilience engineering
• Understanding of SRE principles and/or GitOps practices

Security & Compliance

• Platform security, configuration hardening, secrets management, and identity tooling
• Experience integrating security into pipelines (shift‑left / DevSecOps practices)

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 (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• A broad foundation across multiple domains such as systems administration, networking, security, or databases
• Experience supporting production platforms (on‑call, incident response, root‑cause analysis)
• Hands‑on automation of security or compliance workflows (e.g. vulnerability remediation, scanning, policy‑as‑code)
• Experience bridging traditional infrastructure with cloud‑native and container platforms
• Comfortable collaborating across architecture, development, operations, and security teams

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

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?

ABOUT IBM

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.

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