Platform Engineer (Azure & OpenShift) - SC Clearance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026.
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. We are looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and support modern cloud-native and hybrid platforms. You will work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies, designing high-performing containerised environments using Kubernetes, Docker/CRI-O, and Infrastructure as Code. You will collaborate closely with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms for modern applications. This role is open to engineers across mid-level to senior/principal experience, with responsibilities scaling accordingly. What You'll Do
- Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI-O.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure in multi-cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud-native IaC tools.
- Implement HA/DR strategies, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
- Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for resilient delivery.
- Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations onto container platforms.
- Work with architects and developers to improve platform automation, performance, and security.
- Depending on seniority, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers We are looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and support modern cloud-native and hybrid platforms. You will work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Red Hat technologies, designing high-performing containerised environments using Kubernetes, Docker/CRI-O, and Infrastructure as Code. You will collaborate closely with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms for modern applications. This role is open to engineers across mid-level to senior/principal experience, with responsibilities scaling accordingly. What You'll Do
- Build, automate, and run container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI-O.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure in multi-cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud-native IaC tools.
- Implement HA/DR strategies, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.
- Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for resilient delivery.
- Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations onto container platforms.
- Work with architects and developers to improve platform automation, performance, and security.
- Depending on seniority, lead technical decisions, guide DevOps practices, and mentor engineers. * A broad foundation across multiple domains such as systems administration, networking, security, or databases. * Experience supporting production platforms (on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis). * Hands-on automation of security or compliance workflows (vulnerability remediation, scanning, policy-as-code). * Experience bridging traditional infrastructure with cloud-native and container platforms. * Comfort collaborating across architecture, development, operations, and security. United Kingdom Consulting Hybrid Professional Multiple Cities (1387) IBM Service Centre UK Limited