Software Engineering Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Profe

At IBM Consulting UK Future Now, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

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• 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), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

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

• Build, automate, and operate container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Red Hack).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native IaC tools.
• Implement high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
• Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support resilient delivery.
• Administer Red Hat Open Shift clusters and support migrations to container platforms.
• Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance automation, performance, and security.
• Depending on seniority, contribute to technical leadership, shape Dev Ops practices, and mentor engineers.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

• Solid hands‑on experience in Linux engineering, AWS, and modern container platforms.
• Operating and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, scaling, networking, upgrades, and security.
• Practical experience with Docker and CRI‑O container runtimes.
• Experience administering Open Shift and supporting migrations to container platforms.

• Strong experience with AWS services, with the ability to work across other clouds such as Azure or GCP when required.
• Exposure to hybrid and on‑prem environments, including modernisation of legacy systems.
• Understanding of VPC design, IAM and identity controls, and hybrid networking.

• Experience using Terraform and/or Ansible for Linux platform automation.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud Formation or other cloud‑native IaC tools.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, or Tekton.

• Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Cloud Watch, or Azure Monitor.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and resilience approaches.
• Awareness of SRE and Git Ops methods.

• Knowledge of platform security, Linux hardening, secrets management, and identity tooling.
• Experience integrating security controls into build and deployment pipelines.

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).

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