Introduction
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 centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
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Your role and responsibilities
As a DevOps Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and security. You will work closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline deployment processes, optimize cloud environments, support database migrations and design, implement, and maintain DevSecOps pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure using Terraform and automation tools.
- Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management processes.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment.
- Work closely with development teams to optimize application performance in cloud environments.
- Manage and optimize containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), and service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh).
- Support database migrations from Oracle to AWS RDS PostgreSQL, including SQL/PL SQL development.
- Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Implement security best practices, including TLS, mTLS, certificates, encryption, IAM policies, and secrets management.
Continuously evaluate and recommend new technologies to improve efficiency and scalability.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer.
- Strong expertise in AWS, including AWS IAAS services, ECS Fargate, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB/ELB), IAM, Security Groups, and VPC networking (and similar components in Azure cloud)
- Expert-level knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Extensive hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) (Certified Kubernetes Admin/Developer preferred)
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm, and Kustomize
- Proficiency in SQL/PL SQL for database migrations (Oracle to PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with security protocols, encryption, transport layer security (TLS/mTLS), and certificate management
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell, or PowerShell for automation
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, DNS, and load balancing
- Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills
- AWS/Azure Certifications are a plus
Nice to Have
- Experience with Azure AKS and multi-cloud deployments.
- Observability & Logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with service mesh solutions such as Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh.
- Knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager/Azure KeyVault for secure credentials management
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer
- Demonstrated experience with AWS or Azure cloud
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools as Terraform
- Demonstrated experience with container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
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.