Tech Lead - Defence

Tech Lead - Defence at IBM

Join the IBM CIC team, where we deliver technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients across the UK.

At IBM CIC, you’ll work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies worldwide. You will help deliver effective solutions that drive meaningful business change, using the latest technology platforms.

We support and encourage continuous learning and the reinvention of yourself, while you work with diverse teams to create creative solutions that impact a broad network of clients at their sites or at IBM locations.

• Extensive training from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programmes, and the chance to earn industry‑recognised certifications.
• Regular promotion opportunities to advance your career.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• Inclusive culture backed by diversity & inclusion policies, employee champion teams and support networks.
• Friendly environment that welcomes ideas for growth and innovation.
• Peer‑to‑peer appreciation and formal recognition programmes.
• Work‑life balance tools: flexible working, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity and maternity leave, and an innovative maternity returner scheme.
• Traditional benefits: 25 days holiday (plus public holidays), private medical, dental and optical cover, online shopping discounts, Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, and a group personal pension plan with an additional 5% of your base salary paid monthly.

We are looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to contribute to our Dev Ops initiatives. You will lead smaller projects, mentor junior engineers, and shape our technical direction in Dev Ops practices while actively participating throughout the entire Dev Ops lifecycle.

• Use infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios).
• Manage log management and aggregation tools (ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Implement security best practices in alignment with Dev Ops principles.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

• Proven experience with Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Strong scripting and programming skills (Bash, Python, Power Shell).
• Hands‑on experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Excellent knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.
• Experience detecting and resolving security vulnerabilities.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD, or Circle
  
  CI.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Further familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Datadog.
• Passion for continuous learning and professional development.

Preferable:
Bachelor’s Degree.

As an equal‑opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. You must have a valid right to work in the UK, be a resident of the UK with continuous residence for the last 10 years, and be able to hold or obtain a UK government security clearance. Visa sponsorship is not offered.