Azure DevOps

Job description

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

A career in IBM CIC 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 centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Azure DevOps Engineer in IBM CIC, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll identify insights and tasks that can be automated.

You'll have the opportunity to identify points of improvement in technical processes and propose new ways to do it through automation, help our customer to resolve their pain points and, through co-creation, define solutions that allow improving the efficiency of their operations.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Design, analyze, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Participate in on-call rotation, engage with product teams to fix production outages, and carry forward action items to improve ongoing reliability.

• Develop effective tooling, alerts, and response to both identify and address reliability risks including automatic problem detection and mitigation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  DevOps experience, maintaining Linux servers (Alpine CentOS Debian);
·  Experience with CI/CD pipelines;
·  Experience in writing unit tests and/or functional tests;
·  Experience in Azure;
·  Experience with Terraform and understanding the underlying structures and models that power Terraform;
·  Able to understand concepts like dependency inversion module composition and separation of concerns and be able to apply them to Terraform configuration;
·  Experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  MCSA/MCSE
·  HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
·  RCHA / RCHE Linux Certification
·  AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate.
·  AZ-204: Azure Developer Associate.
·  AI-102: Azure AI Engineer Associate.
·  DP-100: Azure Data Scientist Associate.
·  AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate DP-203: Azure Data Engineer Associate
DP-300: Azure Database Administrator Associate Docker Certified Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator