Secure digital delivery and infrastructure for UK defence and national security
IBM SiXworks builds and runs high-assurance digital systems for defence and national security, pairing on-prem virtualisation (VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Hyper-V, NetApp ONTAP, Cisco Nexus) with containers on OpenShift and Kubernetes. Terraform, Ansible, Vault and HSM point to infrastructure-as-code in tightly controlled environments. Hiring is accelerating and is engineering- and security-heavy, tied to SOC delivery and data-centric interoperability work.
Notable leadership hires: Account Director
IBM SiXworks is a privately held provider of secure digital solutions, headquartered in Farnborough, England, and founded in 2017. It serves defence and national security customers with strict security, assurance and privacy requirements. Its specialties include cross domain security, cyber, information assurance, networking, systems engineering, data analysis and concept demonstrators for air domain and combat systems. The company promotes Zero Trust and data-centric architectures and focuses on taking experimental technology from proof of concept to live service. It employs between 201 and 500 people.
IBM SiXworks uses VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Cisco Nexus, NetApp ONTAP, Elasticsearch and Nessus, alongside Azure, AWS and GCP.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and focused on engineering and security roles, mostly at mid level, supporting 24/7 SOC delivery, security controls reviews and accreditation testing.
IBM SiXworks is headquartered in Farnborough, England, United Kingdom, and has 201–500 employees.
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