AWS DevOps Engineer - SC MOD

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success.

You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Future Now Centers
, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an AWS Dev Ops Engineer delivering solutions for IBM’s public sector clients, you will deliver cloud migration, modernisation, and adoption initiatives using AWS and Dev Ops practices. Working collaboratively across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams, you will build secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure:
  Build, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS environments and services using Infrastructure as Code.
• Cloud Migration:
  Support the migration and modernisation of applications and workloads onto AWS.
• CI/CD & Automation:
  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, and operational tooling.
• Infrastructure & Security:
  Implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned with IBM and public sector standards.
• Monitoring & Operations:
  Monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot issues, and maintain service reliability and performance.
• Incident Management:
  Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to prevent recurring issues.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Identify opportunities to improve automation, processes, infrastructure, and overall customer outcomes.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and Dev Ops practices, including infrastructure automation, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with knowledge of Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation using Bash/Shell and ANT.
• Experience with Git, Docker, and Liquibase for source control, containerisation, and database deployment automation.
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence within Agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch, Lambda, RDS, ECS/EKS, and AWS networking and security concepts.
• Understanding of Dev Ops principles, automation, monitoring, logging, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and collaborate effectively across development, infrastructure, security, and client teams.

• Cloud & Dev Ops:
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