**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. **Your role and responsibilities** As a DevOps Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and security. You will work closely with development, operations, and security teams to streamline deployment processes, optimize cloud environments, support database migrations and design, implement, and maintain DevSecOps pipelines. Key Responsibilities * Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure using Terraform and automation tools. * Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management processes. * Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment. * Work closely with development teams to optimize application performance in cloud environments. * Manage and optimize containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), and service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh). * Support database migrations from Oracle to AWS RDS PostgreSQL, including SQL/PL SQL development. * Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. * Implement security best practices, including TLS, mTLS, certificates, encryption, IAM policies, and secrets management. Continuously evaluate and recommend new technologies to improve efficiency and scalability. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer. * Strong expertise in AWS, including AWS IAAS services, ECS Fargate, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB/ELB), IAM, Security Groups, and VPC networking (and similar components in Azure cloud) * Expert-level knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Extensive hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) (Certified Kubernetes Admin/Developer preferred) * Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm, and Kustomize * Proficiency in SQL/PL SQL for database migrations (Oracle to PostgreSQL) * Familiarity with security protocols, encryption, transport layer security (TLS/mTLS), and certificate management * Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell, or PowerShell for automation * Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, DNS, and load balancing * Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills * AWS/Azure Certifications are a plus Nice to Have * Experience with Azure AKS and multi-cloud deployments. * Observability & Logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry. * Experience with service mesh solutions such as Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh. * Knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager/Azure KeyVault for secure credentials management **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer * Demonstrated experience with AWS or Azure cloud * Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools as Terraform * Demonstrated experience with container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes 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.