Software Engineering AWS DevOps Engineer - SC MOD Required Professional Multiple Cities

IBM; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to deliver cloud migration, modernisation, and adoption initiatives for public sector clients using AWS and DevOps practices. You will collaborate across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams to build secure, scalable cloud solutions.

The role requires strong AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, and containerization experience, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with knowledge of Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation using Bash/Shell and ANT.
• Experience with Git, Docker, and Liquibase for source control, containerisation, and database deployment automation.
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence within Agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure: Build, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS environments and services using Infrastructure as Code.
• Cloud Migration: Support the migration and modernisation of applications and workloads onto AWS.
• CI/CD & Automation: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, and operational tooling.
• Infrastructure & Security: Implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with IBM and public sector standards.
• Monitoring & Operations: Monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot issues, and maintain service reliability and performance.
• Incident Management: Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to prevent recurring issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve automation, processes, infrastructure, and overall customer outcomes.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Docker

Liquibase

Kubernetes

Jira/Confluence

CloudWatch

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Liquibase

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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

As an AWS DevOps Engineer delivering solutions for IBM’s public sector clients, you will deliver cloud migration, modernisation, and adoption initiatives using AWS and DevOps practices. Working collaboratively across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams, you will build secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure: Build, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS environments and services using Infrastructure as Code.
• Cloud Migration: Support the migration and modernisation of applications and workloads onto AWS.
• CI/CD & Automation: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, and operational tooling.
• Infrastructure & Security: Implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with IBM and public sector standards.
• Monitoring & Operations: Monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot issues, and maintain service reliability and performance.
• Incident Management: Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to prevent recurring issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve automation, processes, infrastructure, and overall customer outcomes.

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

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and DevOps practices, including infrastructure automation, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with knowledge of Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation using Bash/Shell and ANT.
• Experience with Git, Docker, and Liquibase for source control, containerisation, and database deployment automation.
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence within Agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS, ECS/EKS, and AWS networking and security concepts.
• Understanding of DevOps principles, automation, monitoring, logging, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and collaborate effectively across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud & DevOps: Experience with cloud migration and adoption, with a strong understanding of DevOps principles, Agile delivery, and modern cloud operating models.
• Scripting & Automation: Experience developing scripts and automation to support testing, deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes.
• Open Source Technologies: Exposure to open source technologies and solutions, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and integration into CI/CD environments.
• AWS Services: Broader experience across AWS services, cloud security, networking, monitoring, containers, serverless technologies, and cloud-native architectures.
• DevOps Tooling: Exposure to additional DevOps technologies and practices, including Kubernetes, Helm, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and automated monitoring and observability.
• Public Sector Delivery: Experience working within regulated, security-conscious, or public sector environments is desirable.

Desirable Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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.

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 Title

Job ID

133766

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 60% or 3 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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