AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer - Defence

Introduction

At IBM CIC, we deliver deep 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 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.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom 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 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), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

We are seeking a AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer to join IBM’s delivery teams supporting public‑sector and defence programmes. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and long‑term maintenance of secure, cloud‑based applications that underpin critical government and defence operations. You will work across both frontend and backend technologies while leveraging AWS services to build scalable, resilient, and high‑performing solutions.

As part of IBM’s multidisciplinary Agile teams, you will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, architects, and client stakeholders to deliver applications that meet strict standards for reliability, security, and compliance. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex, high‑assurance systems while shaping modern cloud‑native solutions used across UK public‑sector environments.

• Build and maintain full‑stack applications deployed on AWS that meet the performance, reliability, and security requirements of government and defence environments.
• Design and develop APIs and microservices using technologies such as Node.js, Python, or Java, ensuring strong modularity, maintainability, and scalability.
• Create responsive, accessible, and user‑centred front‑end interfaces with frameworks such as React.js, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Use AWS services—including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, and RDS—to deliver robust, cloud‑native application features.
• Apply secure engineering practices, optimise performance, and ensure applications scale effectively under varying workloads.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and automate deployments using AWS Code Pipeline or equivalent tooling.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, architects, and fellow developers within an Agile delivery model.
• Write clean, maintainable code that aligns with IBM’s engineering standards, and participate in peer code reviews and technical documentation.

• Proven experience in full‑stack development, with a strong focus on building…