Infrastructure & Technology Azure Infrastructure Engineer Professional Cheltenham, GB

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 an Azure Infrastructure Specialist at IBM, you'll play a critical role in supporting the infrastructure that underpins industries such as transportation, energy, insurance, banking, and healthcare. These industries are undergoing rapid transformation as technology continues to evolve, and we're looking for experts like you to help our clients stay ahead of the curve.

In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and deploying containerized applications on Azure, leveraging your expertise in Azure Component services for Compute, Storage, Networking, and Monitoring. You'll provision Azure infrastructure, considering cloud-native architecture and deployment models, to ensure seamless integration with DevOps toolchains.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Design and deploy containerized applications on Azure, utilizing expertise in Azure Component services
• Provision Azure infrastructure, considering cloud-native architecture and deployment models
• Apply knowledge of Storage, Compute, and Security Services to administer hybrid cloud environments, configure HA/DR, and manage Kubernetes clusters
• Utilize expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and CRIO to manage application lifecycles, deployed clusters, and orchestration best practices
• Monitor SLA, services health, and key metrics, ensuring seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with Application Architects to identify suitable tools for performance, code quality, and code coverage measurement, and define quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.

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.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Azure infrastructure implementation and support
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and Terraform
• Hands-on experience with managing or deploying Azure infrastructure via Terraform
• Strong understanding of Azure Administration, with a focus on AZ-104 - Azure Administrator
• Experience with managing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Experience with administrating Azure and its services, including Entra, with a focus on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Certified in Azure Administration, with a strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CRIO
• Strong knowledge of Storage, Compute, and Security Services
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including Application Architects and DevOps engineers

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration.

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IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title: Azure Infrastructure Specialist

Job ID: 17703

City / Township / Village: Gloucestershire

Country: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Shift: General (daytime)