DevOps Engineer - Defence

Dev Ops Engineer - Defence

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

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry‑recognised 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

• Design, build and manage cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) using Terraform and Ansible
• Develop and deploy scalable and secure applications using NodeJS, React
  
  JS and RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration with Elasticsearch and Apache Ni Fi
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Kubernetes and Open Shift to automate testing, building and deployment of applications
• Implement containerisation using Docker, Podman and Buildah and orchestration using Kubernetes and Open Shift
• Implement security best practices in accordance with Dev Ops principles

Bachelor's Degree

• Proven experience in Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipeline development
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Power Shell)
• Exposure to containerisation 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

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

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK, be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously there for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

We do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.