Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Avature; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consulting firm as an AWS DevOps Engineer, where you'll leverage your expertise to design and manage AWS solutions for critical government projects. Work in a collaborative environment that values innovation and offers opportunities for career growth. Contribute to transformative initiatives while ensuring compliance with government regulations.

Benefits

Flexible working approaches

Paid maternity leave

Gym discount scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Group personal pension plan

Qualifications

• Experience in designing AWS-based solutions for government projects.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices and government standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS solutions for government initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure system reliability and compliance.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem-Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS Lambda

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

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

IBM is a global leader in hybrid cloud technology, innovation, and consulting, is currently seeking a seasoned AWS DevOps Engineer with substantial experience in the public sector and government projects. As part of IBM's diverse and inclusive team, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, deploying, and managing robust, scalable, and secure AWS-based solutions to support critical government initiatives.

Leveraging your deep understanding of cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and familiarity with government regulations, you will contribute to maintaining IBM's reputation as a trusted partner in the public sector. Your responsibilities will extend beyond the technical aspects to include collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring system reliability, security, and compliance with stringent government standards.

At IBM, you'll not only have the opportunity to apply your technical skills but also contribute to transformative government projects. Your role will be instrumental in shaping the future of public services, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and DevOps methodologies to deliver efficient, reliable, and secure digital solutions.

If you're passionate about harnessing the power of technology to drive positive societal impact and wish to join a company recognized for its commitment to diversity and inclusion, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Design, deploy, and manage robust, scalable, and secure AWS-based solutions to support government projects using services like AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc.
• Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation.
• Ensure system reliability, security, and compliance with government regulations and standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Monitor systems, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, with experience in the public sector or government projects.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and others.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and familiarity with government security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST).
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong communication, and team collaboration abilities.

Preferred Certifications:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification, particularly relevant to public sector projects

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Cypress for end-to-end testing.
• Familiarity with OpenShift Containers.

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 50 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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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Job ID

15979

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United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

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