DevOps Platform Engineer

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 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.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for a DevOps Infrastructure Specialist to help build, automate, and support modern cloud‑native and hybrid platforms. You will work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies, designing high‑performing containerised environments using Kubernetes, Docker/CRI‑O, and Infrastructure as Code. You will collaborate closely with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms for modern applications. This role is open to engineers across mid‑level to senior/principal experience, with responsibilities scaling accordingly.

What Youll Do

• Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure in multi‑cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native IaC tools.
• Implement HA/DR strategies, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
• Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for resilient delivery.
• Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations onto container platforms.
• Work with architects and developers to improve platform automation, performance, and security.
• Depending on seniority, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

You will need hands‑on experience with some of the following, and a proactive mindset to learn the rest:

• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes cluster operations (deployments, scaling, security, networking, upgrades), Docker and CRI‑O runtime experience, OpenShift administration and migration support.
• Cloud & Hybrid Platforms: Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and familiarity with others, Hybrid/on‑prem environments and legacy modernisation projects, VPC/VNet design, IAM/identity management, hybrid connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform and/or Ansible for platform automation, CloudFormation, ARM or other cloud IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Tekton).
• Observability & Reliability: Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor), HA/DR patterns, load balancing, and resilience engineering, Understanding of SRE and GitOps practices.
• Security & Compliance: Platform security, configuration hardening, secrets governance, identity tooling, Integrating security controls into pipelines (shift‑left/shift‑right).

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).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

A broad foundation across multiple domains such as systems administration, networking, security, or databases. Experience supporting production platforms (on‑call, incident response, root‑cause analysis). Hands‑on automation of security or compliance workflows (vulnerability remediation, scanning, policy‑as‑code). Experience bridging traditional infrastructure with cloud‑native and container platforms. Comfort collaborating across architecture, development, operations, and security.