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Site Reliability Engineer

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IBM

Site Reliability Engineer

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Introduction
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 centers 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.

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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 centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients' hybrid cloud and AI journeys.

You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high-performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Analyze, validate, and propose improvements to existing failures, with the support of the architect and technical leader.

• Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshooting where necessary, providing a great customer service.

• Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.
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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
The role of an AWS developer is to design, develop, and maintain cloud-based applications using AWS services, and requires a combination of hard skills such as knowledge of AWS services and programming languages, and soft skills such as problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.

Java - This should be both SE and EE standards with experience in frameworks such as Spring boot JPA etc along with test driven development and building RESTful applications.
Dev/Ops - Experience with automation tools such as Jenkins CI/CD Ansible Terraform.
Experience in AWS management including; EC2 Instances and Auto Scaling Groups, RDS, VPCs, SQS, Elasticsearch Service;
Experience with Containerisation;
Experience of integrating with ELK stack;
Experience with React.

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 Expertise
RCHA / RCHE Linux Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Docker Certified Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Client-provided location(s): Cheltenham, UK
Job ID: IBM-20868410
Employment Type: Full Time

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