Software Engineering DevOps Engineer Professional Cheltenham, GB

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:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised 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 programmes, 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 Programme, 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 will 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. Your role and responsibilities include:

• Leading smaller projects, guiding junior engineers, and shaping our technical direction in DevOps practices.
• Actively participating in the entire DevOps lifecycle, focusing on automating and streamlining software delivery pipelines using modern DevOps tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Setting up and maintaining monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios).
• Managing log management and aggregation tools (e.g., ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Understanding and implementing security best practices in accordance with DevOps principles.
• Implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Proven experience as a Developer, with a focus on developing analyst tools.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy software applications and systems.
• Deep understanding of software development principles, best practices, and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly and effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, and tools relevant to the development of analyst tools.
• Collaborating with development, operations, and QA teams to improve software delivery and reliability.
• Ensuring security, compliance, and reliability in all stages of the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Working on site 4‑5 days a week.
• Proven experience in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Exposure to containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Excellent knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with detecting and resolving security vulnerabilities.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK Stack, Datadog).
• Passion for continuous learning and professional development.

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.