Introduction
Locations in Preston, Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle
Travel: flexibility to travel across the UK up to 5 days a week (Travel allowance and travel expenses paid)
As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a DevOps Engineer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!
You will work with various projects and clients, working towards client specifications. You will have a real passion for the philosophy of DevOps which they’ll be able to use to their advantage and deliver value for our clients. Your role will involve designing and deploying solutions to the cloud which will allow: automatic provisioning and management of environments; the capability to continuously integrate; containerisation functionality and the automation of testing
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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Continuous Integration e.g. Jenkins, UrbanCode, SonarQube, Nexus
- Containerisation e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
- Source code management tools such as GitHub, BitBucket, RTC
- Monitoring tools e.g. Nagios, Zabbix
- Cloud platforms e.g. IBM Bluemix, AWS, Azure
- “Infrastructure as Code” concept using tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef
- System administration of Linux & Windows
- Automation Testing tools e.g. Selenium, JUnit
- Coding & shell scripts using languages such as Bash, Ruby, YAML
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Understanding of the Software Development Life cycle (Preferably Agile)
- Skills working in a secure environment and ability to adhere to security principles
- Experience in support organisation
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, in order for you to be eligible for this role, all applicants must hold a UK work permit or visa valid for a two-year period prior to applying. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. For certain projects, ideally candidates will be British Nationals with a minimum of 5 years UK residency, preferably 10 years
