Multi-Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & IaC

IBM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical program

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Maternity returners scheme

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & optical cover

Employee discounts

Life assurance

Pension plan

Job summary

IBM is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native, hybrid platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies. You will implement containerized environments with Kubernetes, Docker/CRI-O, and perform infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.

You'll collaborate with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience managing production platforms (on-call, incident response).
• Automation of security or compliance workflows (vulnerability remediation, policy-as-code).
• Experience bridging traditional infrastructure with cloud-native platforms.
• Collaborative work across architecture, development, operations, and security.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI-O.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure in multi-cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud-native IaC tools.
• Implement HA/DR strategies, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
• Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for resilient delivery.
• Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations onto container platforms.
• Work with architects and developers to improve platform automation, performance, and security.
• Depending on seniority, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Systems administration

Networking

Security

Databases

On-call incident response

Policy-as-code

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CRI-O

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Job description

IBM is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native, hybrid platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies. You will implement containerized environments with Kubernetes, Docker/CRI-O, and perform infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.

You'll collaborate with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms.