Job description
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.
A career in IBM Consulting 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 centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
- Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
- A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
- Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
- A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
- Internal recognition programs 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 programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Managed Cloud Engineer in Nordcloud UK you will be:
- Improving performance of infrastructure and availability of applications running in public cloud.
- Working in squads fulfilling the mission
- Handling monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging of cloud-native infrastructure and Landing Zones
- Contributing to the development of internal tools and products owned by the squad
- Developing automation and IaC for customer infrastructure and applications
- Minimising toil of the squad with automation and code
- Contributing to the internal toolbox that helps us improve our processes, manage our/clients’ infrastructure and scale systems
- Advising our customers on how to adopt the best possible service composition of public cloud-based services and tools
- Maintaining and improving customer satisfaction (including on-call, 24/7) supporting production environments
- Contributing to Nordcloud’s internal community and enabling the best collaboration between colleagues
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Ability to think in an abstract way
- Knowledge of containers, host automation, landing zones and operating systems
- Background in Linux/Unix system administration
- Hands-on experience with containerization (OpenShift [Kubernetes], Docker)
- Built and promoted reusable OpenShift solutions and communicated with partner product teams working on managed OpenShift
- A programming background with good knowledge in a modern programming language, such as Golang or Python
- Experience in solution architecture design
- Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting
- Solid skills in Git and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with automation and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
- Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (VMWare or similar)
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies
- Strong communication skills
- Readiness to work on-call (24/7) when necessary.
- "I’ve got this" attitude.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Public cloud platform experience with AWS and Azure or GCP
- Landing zone build or support experience
About Business Unit
Your Life @ IBM
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.
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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 50 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.
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