Senior AWS Infra Engineer — Linux & Hybrid Cloud
4 days ago
Cheltenham
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique. We offer: • 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 pension plan through salary sacrifice.Your role and responsibilities As a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll use your deep technical expertise to design, build, and support secure, scalable infrastructure environments across both cloud and on-premise platforms. Working within a highly collaborative technical team, you’ll play a key role in delivering resilient Linux-based infrastructure solutions that support mission-critical services for public sector and defence customers, ensuring compliance, security, and operational excellence across highly regulated environments. Responsibilities: • Lead the design, implementation, and support of secure AWS infrastructure platforms with a strong focus on Linux systems, enterprise infrastructure services, and cloud-native best practices, • Design and manage AWS services, and cloud-native best practices, • Design and manage AWS services including EC2, VPCs, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, EBS, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and backup/recovery solutions in line with public sector and defence security requirements, • Manage and optimise Linux server environments, ensuring high availability, hardening, patching, performance, and compliance with security standards and operational policies, • Support and maintain core infrastructure technologies including networking, middleware, DNS, VPNs, monitoring, logging, and enterprise tooling, • Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to integrate AWS infrastructure solutions into CI/CD pipelines and operational support models, • Contribute to infrastructure automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation, • Support containerised workloads and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI-O across secure and scalable environments, • Implement and support AWS security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, logging, including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, logging, auditing, and vulnerability remediation, • Monitor infrastructure health, availability, security, and capacity using enterprise monitoring and logging platforms such as Splunk and CloudWatch, • Support disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience strategies across AWS and hybrid infrastructure environments, • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards, operational documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives, • Contribute to infrastructure strategy, operational roadmaps, cloud migration, and platform modernisation programmes within regulated public sector and defence environments Join our team and play a key role in delivering scalable, secure, and resilient AWS infrastructure solutions that support critical business operations and long-term growth. We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, has strong AWS and Linux expertise, and is passionate about building reliable, efficient platforms that deliver real business value. Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise • Strong experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise Linux environments, • Broad infrastructure knowledge across Linux, Windows, networking, middleware, and systems integration, • Proven experience delivering resilient infrastructure solutions within complex enterprise environments, • Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning and automated environment deployment using Terraform and related automation tools., • Experience managing Kubernetes, Docker, and container runtime platforms such as CRI-O, • Understanding of cloud and hybrid infrastructure models, including AWS platforms, • Familiarity with monitoring, including AWS platforms, • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and operational tooling including Splunk, • Experience with infrastructure performance analysis, system health monitoring, and operational best practices, • Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional National Security Vetting (NSV) controls may apply, including Security Check (SC) or Developed Vet Security Vetting (NSV) controls may apply, including Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) clearance eligibility. Preferred technical and professional experience • Extensive certification in AWS Administration, • Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and deployment models, • Knowledge of container orchestration best practices, • Experience with monitoring tools and key metrics (SLA, services health), • Understanding of performance measurement tools and code quality metrics. Desirable Certifications • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) 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. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet. In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. 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. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM 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, 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. IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment. Job Title Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Job ID 128376 City / Township / Village State / Province Gloucestershire Country United Kingdom Work arrangement Hybrid Area of work Software Engineering Employment type Regular Position type Professional Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements) Company (8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited Shift General (daytime) Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? #J-18808-Ljbffr
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