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Introduction

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be a core member of the product engineering team, responsible for building and maintaining a reliable, automated, and scalable delivery infrastructure for our software products. You will design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, ensure observability and high availability of environments, and enable engineering teams to deliver software rapidly and safely.

You will work closely with developers, QA engineers, and product managers in an agile, collaborative environment to drive operational excellence, continuous improvement, and a culture of automation and reliability.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines that support development, testing, staging, and production environments.
  • Work closely with software engineering teams to enable seamless integration, continuous delivery, and faster release cycles.
  • Automate build, deployment, and configuration management using industry-standard tools and frameworks (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform).
  • Ensure environment consistency and reliability through infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices and containerized deployments.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance, availability, and scalability across distributed environments.
  • Develop and implement tools and frameworks for automated deployment, testing, observability, and incident response.
  • Collaborate with developers to embed defect prevention, security, and compliance into the delivery pipeline.
  • Enable A/B testing, canary releases, and blue-green deployments for safe and controlled rollouts.
  • Partner with QA and development teams to ensure test automation integration within the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Contribute to incident management and post-mortem analysis, driving continuous improvement in resilience and operational efficiency.
  • Maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure proactive detection and resolution of issues.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills and Experience

  • Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD.
  • Expertise in containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
  • Proficiency in Linux system administration, scripting (Bash, Python, or Go), and environment management.
  • Familiarity with build automation tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Ant.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud) and understanding of cloud-native architectures.
  • Hands-on experience in monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry).
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, load balancing, and security best practices.
  • Experience with source control and versioning tools (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket).
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot performance and deployment issues in complex distributed systems.

 

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with service mesh frameworks (Istio, Linkerd) and modern deployment strategies (e.g., canary, blue-green).
  • Exposure to SRE principles — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
  • Knowledge of chaos engineering or resilience testing tools.
  • Familiarity with cost optimization and resource scaling in cloud environments.
  • Prior experience in product-oriented DevOps environments, supporting large-scale SaaS or platform engineering teams.

 

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.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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