Azure Devops Engineer
Hybrid
Leicester, United Kingdom
Full Time
28-02-2025
Job Specifications
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 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,"params":{"messagecontainertype":"channel"},"uistate":{"ts":"1730201870.621939","button":"reaction"}}"="" data-qa="add_reaction" data-sk="tooltip_parent" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; color: rgba(var(--sk_foreground_max_solid,97,96,97),1); font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; overflow: initial; text-align: initial; vertical-align: initial; margin: 0px; --sk_button-styles-radius: 8px; border-radius: 4px; height: 32px; width: var(--sk_button-size); justify-content: center; align-items: center; display: inline-flex; position: relative; --sk_button-size: 32px; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;" type="button">
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Azure DevOps Expertise: Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps tools.
GitHub Integration: Configure GitHub Actions and workflows for source control, automated builds, testing, and deployments.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): Manage and optimize ALM processes, including version control, branching strategies, and release management.
Monitoring and Logging: Implement monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.
Security Practices: Enforce DevSecOps principles, including integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines and managing secrets with tools like Azure Key Vault.
Collaborative Tools: Work with teams to establish best practices in Git workflows, Agile methodologies, and project tracking using Azure Boards or GitHub Projects.
Cloud Integration: Manage and optimize Azure services, including App Services, Functions, and Storage, as part of deployment pipelines.
Performance Optimization: Troubleshoot and optimize CI/CD processes for faster and more reliable deployments.
Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise
Experience with multi-cloud environments
Familiarity with Azure Policy and governance for compliance
Knowledge of YAML pipelines and custom extensions in Azure DevOps
Hands-on experience with deployments for zero-downtime releases
Expertise in incident management and root cause analysis for pipeline failures
About Business Unit
The Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. A fast-paced and dynamic business built to deliver high-value technical services to world renowned clients. All of our employees work in a consultancy environment on a variety of exciting projects across a range of sectors. Every project has its own unique working environment - this enables our employees to build their experience, skillset and network. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems?
Your Life @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
About IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
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.
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