Software Engineering Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Defence Professional Cheltenham, GBIBM • Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Software Engineering Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Defence Professional Cheltenham, GB
IBM
- Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
- Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
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Benefits
Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programmes and the chance to gain industry‑recognised 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 processes as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
Internal recognition programmes 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 programmes, 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 Programme, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure and efficient cloud‑based systems and applications for public sector and defence environments.
Provide expert‑level guidance on SRE and DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices across IBM delivery teams.
Work directly with government and defence clients to understand their operational needs, translating them into reliable solutions.
Stay up to date with emerging SRE and DevOps trends to ensure IBM continues to deliver modern, efficient and secure engineering solutions.
Use infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate and standardise infrastructure deployments.
Configure and maintain monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana or Nagios to ensure strong system observability and reliability.
Manage log aggregation and analysis tools such as the ELK Stack or Splunk, supporting visibility and auditability in secure environments.
Apply robust security best practices throughout the engineering lifecycle, aligned with DevOps principles and the stringent requirements of government and defence systems.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery and improve deployment speed, quality and consistency.
Qualifications
Strong design analytical and problem‑solving skills & attention to detail
Experience with cloud platforms, containerisation & CI/CD pipelines
Strong understanding of system design scalability & reliability
Ability to work independently & with a team
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or CircleCI, with the ability to design and optimise automated build and deployment pipelines.
Familiarity with configuration management tools, including Ansible, Puppet or Chef, for managing consistent and repeatable infrastructure.
Strong knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
Experience using monitoring and logging platforms like Prometheus, ELK Stack or Datadog to support observability, alerting and troubleshooting.
A genuine passion for continuous learning, staying current with SRE and DevOps practices and ongoing professional development.
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. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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