Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required

Skip to content IBM < Back to search results Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Cheltenham, London, Hursley, Leicester, Manchester, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester, United Kingdom Professional Email X LinkedIn Apply now Introduction At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.We offer: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 schemeMore 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 pension plan through salary sacrifice. 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. Your role and responsibilities We are looking for a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join IBM, with eSC or eDV Clearance required. In this role, you will help build, automate, and support modern cloud‑native and hybrid platforms for IBM’s public sector and defence clients. You will work across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Red Hat technologies, designing high‑performance containerised environments using Kubernetes, Docker/CRI‑O, and Infrastructure as Code.You will work closely with development, architecture, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms for modern applications.This position is open to engineers from mid‑level through senior and principal levels, with responsibilities adjusted according to experience.What You’ll Do• Build, automate, and operate container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI‑O.• Deploy and manage infrastructure across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Red Hat).• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud‑native IaC tools.• Implement high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions.• Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support resilient delivery.• Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations to container platforms.• Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance automation, performance, and security.• Depending on seniority, contribute to technical leadership, shape DevOps practices, and mentor engineers. Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise You should have solid hands‑on experience in Linux engineering, AWS, and modern container platforms, along with a proactive mindset to build skills in any remaining areas. Containerisation and Orchestration.• Operating and...