IBM Looking for Lead DevOps Engineer at London , South East England Full Time

Introduction
In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:
· Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
· Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
· A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
· 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, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
· More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, 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
As a DevOps Engineer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements
into the design and development of customised systems in an agile environment. You will
work with various projects and clients, working towards client specifications. You will have a
real passion for the philosophy of DevOps which they’ll be able to use to their advantage and
deliver value for our clients.

Your primary responsibilities include:
Your role will involve designing and deploying solutions to the cloud which will
allow automatic provisioning and management of environments, the capability to
continuously integrate and containerisation functionality and the automation of
testing.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• OpenShift (Hands-on)
• Java or .Net
• RDBMS such as Oracle SQL Server DB2 Sybase
• Exposure to MongoDB Spring XD or similar.

OpenShift Experience:

• Ability to debug app deployment issues on OpenShift
• Provided technical leadership on RHOO-related engagement
• Experience refactoring & deploying Apps on OpenShift (various technologies)
• Exposure to application migration from On-Prem to RHOO/IBM Cloud (or other cloud platforms)
• App Containerisation using RHOO DevOps CI/CD Tooling such as Jenkins Docker Kubernetes

Other Experience/Qualities:

• Creation of technical documentation such as Architectural Overview Diagrams and Application Dependency Models
• Identification of technical dependencies (RAIDs).
• Good communication

Must be able to build new DevOps pipelines
• AWS S3 RDS Route 53 IAM EKS Secrets Manager ECR
• Kubernetes Helm Kops Ingress/Egress
• Terraform Deployment of AWS Resources Pipelines OCI
• Observability ELK Dynatrace Prometheus
• Others Vault RedHat

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK for at least a 2-year period before applying. For certain projects, all applicants must be British nationals with 5 years of unbroken residency, ideally 10 years.
Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Skills working in a secure environment and ability to adhere to security principles
• Experience in support organisation
About Business UnitThe Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. A fast-paced and dynamic business built to deliver high-value technical services to world renowned clients. All of our employees work in a consultancy environment on a variety of exciting projects across a range of sectors. Every project has its own unique working environment – this enables our employees to build their experience, skillset and network. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems?

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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.

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