Software Engineering AWS & JavaScript Developer - Defence Professional

At IBM CIC, we provide 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 leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who 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
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• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized 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 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 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 centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

• Build and maintain full‑stack applications deployed on AWS, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Use AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, and RDS to enhance application functionality.
• Apply security best practices, optimise application performance, and ensure scalability across the stack.
• Support the development of CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments using AWS Code Pipeline or similar tools.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other developers in an Agile development environment.

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Bachelor's Degree

• Experience in full‑stack development, including cloud‑based applications, with exposure to projects involving IBM and defence industry organisations.
• Hands‑on backend development experience using Node.js, Python, or Java.
• Familiarity with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo
  
  DB, RDS, and IAM.
• Experience working with both relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) and No
  
  SQL databases (Dynamo
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB).
• Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and debugging techniques.
• Knowledge of Git, version control workflows, and deployment automation practices.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK).
• Knowledge of authentication methods such as OAuth, JWT, or AWS Cognito.
• Exposure to containerised applications using Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all…