Description

Introduction

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP and 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).

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.

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 teams to streamline deployment processes, optimize cloud environments, implement and maintain software release pipelines. The role also requires on-call rotation.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer.

Strong expertise in AWS, 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, Argo, Helm, and Kustomize

Familiarity with security protocols, encryption, transport layer security (TLS/mTLS), and certificate management

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell and Python 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

Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred technical and professional experience

Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer

Demonstrated experience with AWS or Azure cloud or GCP

Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools as Terraform

Demonstrated experience with container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes

Nice to Have

Experience with multi-cloud deployments.

Observability & Logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, DataDog.

Experience with service mesh solutions such like Istio.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Date posted

04-Dec-2025

Job ID

76130

City / Township / Village

San Jose

State / Province

California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

111,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

191,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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