Infrastructure Specialist

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The Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. It is a fast‑paced and dynamic business built to deliver high‑value technical services to world‑renowned clients. All employees work in a consultancy environment on a variety of exciting projects across a range of sectors. Every project has its own unique working environment, enabling employees to build experience, skillset, and network.

Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems?

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 collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners, and the planet.

Technology is evolving fast, and industries like banking, healthcare, energy, and transportation are transforming right along with it. As an Infrastructure Specialist Associate, you’ll help organisations navigate that change — whether they’re running on‑premises systems, cloud environments, or hybrid setups. You’ll work with modern tools, support critical infrastructure, and develop hands‑on skills that keep the digital world running.

• Help design, build, and run the complex hybrid infrastructure platforms that underpin the critical application stacks our clients depend on to manage and grow their business.
• Use programming concepts and at least one scripting language (such as Shell, Python, or Ansible) to support automation and troubleshooting.
• Work with architecture components to fix simple issues and configure environments such as adding memory, configuring backups, managing networks, setting up cloud accounts, and installing applications.
• Learn and help create infrastructure automation playbooks using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Support OS and application‑layer patching by collaborating with administrators, database teams, and network teams.
• Contribute to installation, environment provisioning, configuration, systems management, backup, and recovery tasks.
• Gain hands‑on experience across infrastructure layers including OS, network, storage, virtualization, and cloud services.

• Infrastructure Specialist‑AWS Dev Ops
• Infrastructure Specialist‑Azure Dev Ops

• Exposure to scripting or programming (Shell, Python, Ansible, or similar).
• Understanding of infrastructure fundamentals: operating systems, networks, storage, virtualization.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and major providers (AWS, Azure, IBM, Google, Alibaba, Oracle, Red Hat).
• Awareness of AI and Data Science basics, ethics, and methodologies.
• Operational understanding of operating systems, system diagnostics, remote support, and application infrastructure.
• Ability to use data and logic to approach complex tasks and technical issues.

• Ability to thrive in fast‑moving, tech‑driven environments.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to break down complex topics clearly.
• Willingness to take ownership of tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while meeting deadlines and staying organised.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to build new skills continually.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and understand diverse technical perspectives.
• Passion for innovation and openness to different points of view.

Predicted a 2:1 Bachelor’s Degree or achieved in a STEM, Economics, Statistical degree or similar.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, all applicants must hold British Nationality, UK work permit or visa valid for a two‑year period prior to applying along with at least 5 years UK residency and preferably 10 years. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 30th January.

Assessment Centres will be scheduled in February. Your availability for these dates is critical as they are mandatory and there will be no option to choose. Spots are limited, so please ensure your calendar is clear.

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