**Introduction** 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 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 **DevOps Cloud Engineer** , you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our **cloud infrastructure** to ensure **scalability, reliability, and security** . You will work closely with **development, operations, and security teams** to streamline deployment processes, optimize cloud environments, support **database migrations** and **design, implement, and maintain DevSecOps pipelines** . **Key Responsibilities** - Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure using Terraform and automation tools. - Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management processes. - Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment. - Work closely with development teams to optimize application performance in cloud environments. - Manage and optimize containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), and service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh). - Support database migrations from Oracle to AWS RDS PostgreSQL, including SQL/PL SQL development. - Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. - Implement security best practices, including TLS, mTLS, certificates, encryption, IAM policies, and secrets management. Continuously evaluate and recommend **new technologies** to improve efficiency and scalability. **Preferred Education** Master's Degree **Required Technical And Professional Expertise** - Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer. - Strong expertise in AWS, including AWS IAAS services, ECS Fargate, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB/ELB), IAM, Security Groups, and VPC networking (and similar components in Azure cloud) - Expert-level knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Extensive hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) (Certified Kubernetes Admin/Developer preferred) - Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm, and Kustomize - Proficiency in SQL/PL SQL for database migrations (Oracle to PostgreSQL) - Familiarity with security protocols, encryption, transport layer security (TLS/mTLS), and certificate management - Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell, or PowerShell for automation - Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, DNS, and load balancing - Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills - AWS/Azure Certifications are a plus **Nice to Have** - Experience with Azure AKS and multi-cloud deployments. - Observability & Logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry. - Experience with service mesh solutions such as Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh. - Knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager/Azure KeyVault for secure credentials management **Preferred Technical And Professional Experience** - Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer - Demonstrated experience with AWS or Azure cloud - Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools as Terraform - Demonstrated experience with container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes