Infrastructure & Technology DevOps Infrastructure Specialist - Defence Professional Cheltenham, GB

DevOps Infrastructure Specialist - Defence

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.

We offer:

• 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 programmes, 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 Programme, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

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 centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps Infrastructure Specialist, you'll leverage your extensive technical expertise and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence within our organisation.

Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative DevOps infrastructure solutions that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex infrastructure challenges and have a knack for creating solutions that maximise ROI, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and implementation of complex DevOps infrastructure solutions
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define system architecture and ensure seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines and multiple cloud platforms
• Stay current with emerging DevOps trends, tools and best practices
• Contribute to the development of DevOps infrastructure strategies and roadmaps

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Extensive experience in DevOps infrastructure, including multi cloud environments
• Masterful proficiency in Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and CRIO management
• Proven track record of delivering high quality DevOps infrastructure solutions in a professional setting
• Exceptional communication, leadership and problem solving skills

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery practices
• Understanding of microservices security and resilience patterns

IBM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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

DevOps Infrastructure Specialist

Job ID

79145

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Gloucestershire

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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