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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.

Your role and responsibilities

We're looking for a skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our robust hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring it's scalable, reliable, and secure. You'll work closely with our development, operations, and security teams, acting as a technical DevOps leader to optimize our cloud environments, streamline deployment processes, and mentor junior engineers. Your expertise will be crucial in designing and maintaining our advanced DevSecOps pipelines and supporting complex automations.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Key Responsibilities

·       Lead and Innovate: Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure on Hybrid cloud environments including hyperscalers like AWS or Azure. Drive the adoption of new technologies and best practices to improve efficiency and system performance.

·       Automate and Optimize: Design and implement advanced automation and orchestration strategies to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management. You will be a key contributor to our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated processess and deployment are efficient and reliable.

·       Mentor and Collaborate: Serve as a subject matter expert, guiding development, operations, and security teams. You will mentor junior engineers, lead technical discussions, and drive the resolution of complex issues.

·       Manage Containerization: Oversee the management and optimization of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS). Your expertise will be key in implementing service mesh solutions like Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh.

·       Database Expertise: Lead and automate critical database migrations e.g from Oracle to AWS RDS PostgreSQL. This includes advanced SQL/PL SQL development and performance tuning.

·       Ensure Security: Implement and enforce robust security best practices across all infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for security protocols, encryption, transport layer security (TLS/mTLS), certificate management, and securing credentials with tools like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault.

·       Monitor and Troubleshoot: Proactively monitor and troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. You will be instrumental in developing and refining our observability and logging strategies.

Required Qualifications

·       Extensive Experience: Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or a similar senior-level cloud role.

·       Cloud Mastery: Deep expertise in cloud (IBMCloud, AWS and/or Azure), including advanced services such as AWS IAAS, ECS Fargate, Load Balancers, IAM, and VPC networking.

·       IaC and Automation: Expert-level knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

·       Containerization: Extensive, hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Openshift (EKS/AKS). A Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification is highly preferred.

·       CI/CD Leadership: Significant experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm, and Kustomize.

·       Database Skills: Advanced proficiency in SQL/PL SQL with a focus on database migrations (Oracle to PostgreSQL).

·       Networking and Security: Solid understanding of advanced networking concepts and protocols, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, and a strong grasp of security protocols, encryption, and certificate management.

·       Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell or PowerShell for advanced automation. Strong knowledge of Python coding is highly preferred.

 

·       Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead and mentor.

 

Preferred technical and professional experience

 Experience with multi-cloud deployments and advanced services (e.g., Azure AKS).

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.


Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 


At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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