At IBM CIC we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions driving meaningful business change for our clients using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer :
- Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized 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 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 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 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 Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you'll bring your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to our team contributing to the design development and implementation of automated solutions using various IT automation tools and technologies. You'll work alongside experienced professionals learning and growing as you help optimize service delivery generate documentation and facilitate changes.
Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative IT automation solutions that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex automation challenges and have a knack for creating IT automation solutions that maximize ROI we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Design develop test and implement automation digital workforce data models data transformation logic and action flows using tools like Red Hat Ansible HashiCorp Terraform and IBM RNA
- Leverage AI/GenAI AI Operations and NLP to enhance automation
- Translate IT processes into automated solutions that optimize service delivery generate documentation and facilitate changes
- Understand the operational aspects of IT automation tools and technologies including network connectivity
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of automated solutions
- Strong foundation in IT automation principles and tools (Red Hat Ansible HashiCorp Terraform IBM RNA)
- Exposure to AI/GenAI AI Operations and NLP concepts
- Proficiency in Java JavaScript and other relevant technologies for full-stack applications
- Experience with AWS data engineering and CI/CD practices
- Good understanding of AWS services
- Contribution to batch analytics Python and data engineering efforts
- Familiarity with Prometheus Grafana Nagios and Elasticsearch for monitoring and alerting
- Participation in agile development processes
- Application of SRE principles to improve system reliability and performance
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and learn from senior team members
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.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP)
- Experience with microservices architecture and design patterns
- Understanding of continuous integration and delivery practices