Software Engineering AWS Cloud Full Stack Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance required Professional[...]

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 scheme
• More 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 seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Full Stack Engineer to join IBM, working across public sector and defence accounts. This role requires active eSC or eDV clearance due to the sensitive nature of the projects. You will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting cloud‑native solutions using AWS services, modern front‑end technologies, and robust backend frameworks. The position requires strong knowledge of cloud architecture, secure software engineering practices, and end‑to‑end full‑stack development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable cloud applications on AWS for public sector and defence clients.
• Build full‑stack solutions using modern front‑end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js, and backend technologies including Node.js, Java, Python, or similar.
• Architect, implement, and enhance cloud‑native solutions leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs and deliverables.
• Apply best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Improve application performance, resilience, and security in line with industry and government standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on AWS engineering and full‑stack development.
• Stay current with evolving AWS technologies, engineering patterns, and full‑stack development practices.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor\'s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep experience in full‑stack application engineering with advanced capability in designing and deploying solutions on AWS.
• Strong, hands‑on proficiency with modern front‑end ecosystems, including React, Angular, or Vue.js, with a focus on building high‑performance, component‑driven interfaces.
• Solid expertise in backend development using technologies such as Node.js, Java, Python, or .NET, with the ability to design scalable, modular, and secure server‑side services.
• Extensive practical experience across core AWS services including Lambda, ECS, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, and Infrastructure as Code tooling such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Proven ability to architect and implement RESTful APIs, microservices, and domain‑specific architectural patterns to support complex, distributed systems.
• Skilled in DevOps engineering using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and automated CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable delivery.
• Strong understanding of authentication models, cloud security best practices, and high‑availability patterns to ensure resilient and secure cloud architectures.
• Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to thrive in fast‑paced, agile delivery environments.
• Confident communicator and technical leader, able to guide teams and drive engineering excellence.

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening as defined by the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional National Security Vetting (NVS) requirements may apply, including eligibility for enhanced Security Check (eSC) or enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Desirable Certifications.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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, in reasoning 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 wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

AWS Cloud Full Stack Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance required

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City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

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