Senior DevOps Engineer

IBM; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London is looking for a DevOps Engineer to work in their Consulting Client Innovation Center. The successful candidate will collaborate with diverse teams to implement and manage CI/CD processes, infrastructure as code, and monitoring solutions. This role supports hybrid working with opportunities for flexible arrangements. Candidates should have strong DevOps practices experience and proficiency in scripting languages. Join us to drive innovation in a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Promotion opportunities

Work-life balance support

Diversity and Inclusion programs

Private medical and dental cover

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Strong scripting and programming skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Exposure to containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Work with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Set up and maintain monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Implement CI/CD processes and best practices.

Skills

DevOps practices

Scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Version control (Git)

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Splunk

Job description

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• 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, 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 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

Responsibilities

• Working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Setting up and maintaining monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios).
• Managing log management and aggregation tools (e.g., ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Understand and implement security best practices in accordance with DevOps principles.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Exposure to containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Excellent knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with detecting and resolving security vulnerabilities.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK Stack, Datadog).
• Passion for continuous learning and professional development.

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.

Job ID: 79568

City / Township / Village: London

State / Province: London, City of

Country: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company: IBM

Shift: General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?: No information provided

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.