AWS DevOps Platform Engineer - eSC/eDV Clearance

Introduction
At IBM Consulting UK Future Now, 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
As an AWS DevOps Infrastructure Specialist, you'll bring your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to our team, contributing to the design, deployment, and maintenance of containerized applications on AWS. You'll work alongside experienced professionals, learning and growing as you help ensure seamless integration with DevOps toolchains.

Responsibilities:

Design and deploy containerized applications on AWS, leveraging expertise in AWS component services
Provision AWS infrastructure, considering cloud-native architecture and deployment models
Ensure seamless integration with DevOps toolchains and CI/CD pipelines
Apply knowledge of Storage, Compute, and Security Services to administer hybrid cloud environments
Configure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions and manage Kubernetes clusters
Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative AWS infrastructure solutions that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex infrastructure challenges and have a knack for creating AWS solutions that maximize ROI, we'd love to hear from you.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Hands‑on experience designing and deploying containerised workloads on AWS (e.g. EKS, ECS, Docker)
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) including environment provisioning and automation
Practical knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem (cluster management, networking, scaling, troubleshooting)
Solid understanding of AWS core services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Security) and cloud‑native architecture patterns
Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
Experience implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) strategies in AWS environments
Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting capability within cloud and container environments
Ability to work collaboratively in cross‑functional engineering teams and contribute to delivery outcomes
Strong problem‑solving and communication skills, particularly in technical delivery contexts
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).
Preferred technical and professional experience
Experience working within multi-account AWS environments (e.g. Organizations, landing zones)
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
Exposure to security best practices in cloud and container environments (IAM, secrets management, Zero Trust concepts)
Experience supporting or delivering cloud migration or modernisation programmes
Experience working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments (e.g. Public Sector, Financial Services)

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
AWS DevOps Platform Engineer (Containers & Infrastructure)
Job ID
119819
City / Township / Village
London, Hursley, Leicester, Manchester
State / Province
Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester
Country
United Kingdom
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology:

Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
(1387) IBM Service Centre UK Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
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