**Introduction** At IBM CIC, we deliver deep 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 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. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom 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), 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** We're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to significantly contribute to our DevOps efforts. In this role, you'll lead smaller projects, guide junior engineers, and shape our technical direction in DevOps practices. You will also actively participate 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). * Understand and implement security best practices in accordance with DevOps principles. * Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Proven experience in DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline development. * Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell). * Exposure to containerization 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 **Preferred technical and professional experience** Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI). IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.