The posting
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.
Join IBM and play a key role in delivering cutting-edge cloud technology that supports the UK’s national security and public sector. As an AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer, you’ll work on high-impact, mission-critical projects, designing and building secure, scalable and innovative applications that make a real difference. You’ll collaborate with talented technical teams, harness the power of AWS and modern development technologies, and help shape the next generation of secure digital solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your expertise to meaningful challenges at the forefront of cloud innovation. Due to the sensitive nature of the projects and clients, eSC (Enhanced Security Check) clearance is essential.
- Strong experience in full stack development, building secure, scalable applications.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React or Angular.
- Back-end development experience with Node.js, Python, Java or similar.
- Experience with REST APIs, databases, microservices and system integration.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code.
- Understanding of cloud security, IAM and secure software development.
- Experience working in Agile environments using Git and automated testing.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.
- Valid eSC (Enhanced Security Check) clearance is essential.
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
- Experience delivering cloud solutions within public sector, defence or national security environments.
- Familiarity with serverless architecture, containerisation and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and automated deployment pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud governance, compliance and security frameworks.
- Experience with monitoring, logging and performance optimisation across AWS environments.
Desirable Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate



