Associate Cloud Engineer (September 2026 - Calgary)

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering

Calgary, AB, Canada

Posted on Jul 3, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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

As an Associate Cloud Engineer, you will support the development, deployment, and operation of applications and services across multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Working alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional teams, you will help build cloud-native solutions, automate infrastructure, support CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to secure and reliable cloud operations. This is an entry-level opportunity for recent graduates who bring strong technical fundamentals, curiosity, and a willingness to learn cloud and platform engineering in a collaborative environment.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Support Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery: Assist in the development and deployment of applications and services across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud environments.
  • Build Cloud-Native Solutions: Help design and implement cloud-native solutions using platform services such as compute, storage, networking, and managed databases.
  • Contribute to Infrastructure Automation: Support automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code tools and repeatable deployment practices.
  • Work with Containers and Orchestration: Assist with containerized workloads using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  • Support CI/CD Implementation: Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery of cloud applications.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work with platform, security, and application teams to help ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise standards and best practices.
  • Troubleshoot and Optimize Cloud Environments: Participate in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident resolution across cloud platforms and services.
  • Support Cloud Security Practices: Assist in implementing cloud security controls and best practices, including identity and access management, secrets management, and compliance-aligned configurations.
  • Maintain Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for cloud configurations, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.
  • Continue Learning Emerging Technologies: Stay current with evolving cloud technologies, DevOps tools, and multi-cloud engineering practices.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Graduated in last 24 months (MBA not accepted)
  • Agentic and Generative AI: Experience using Generative AI and agentic AI tools to support software development, documentation, workflow automation, cloud operations, and knowledge retrieval. Ability to apply these tools responsibly with appropriate attention to accuracy, validation of outputs, data privacy, security, and human oversight.
  • Programming and Scripting Skills: Programming and scripting knowledge in languages such as Python, Java, or Go. Familiarity with Bash or PowerShell scripting for automation tasks is preferred.
  • Cloud Platform Knowledge: Hands-on experience with two or more cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud, and familiarity with core services such as compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
  • Cloud-Native Development Fundamentals: Understanding of cloud-native development concepts including microservices, REST-based integrations, and scalable application design.
  • DevOps and CI/CD Fundamentals: Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
  • Version Control and Collaboration: Proficiency with Git/GitHub and collaborative development workflows including branching, pull requests, and code review practices.
  • Containers and Orchestration: Strong knowledge of Docker and experience with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
  • Monitoring and Reliability Fundamentals: Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or Dynatrace, along with basic reliability and operational support practices.
  • Cloud Security Fundamentals: Understanding of cloud security concepts including RBAC/IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.
  • Database and Integration Awareness: Working knowledge of SQL and relational database fundamentals; exposure to messaging and integration technologies such as Kafka, Service Bus, SQS, or SNS.
  • Analytical and Team-Based Problem Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional Agile environments.
  • Learning Agility and Ownership: Curiosity, adaptability, attention to detail, ownership, and commitment to quality delivery in a fast-paced technical environment.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Exposure to multi-cloud architecture patterns and strategies for deploying applications across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  • Familiarity with AIOps, AI-enabled platform engineering, or support for AI/ML workloads and automation tools.
  • Experience supporting or building cloud security and compliance controls in enterprise environments.
  • Exposure to serverless services, managed Kubernetes offerings, or platform engineering concepts.
  • Familiarity with incident management, operational runbooks, and support processes in cloud-based environments.

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.

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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

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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