Backend Developer

Introduction
Our organization offers a highly visible, large-scale enterprise platform delivering standardized and automated VMware virtualization solutions on IBM Cloud including a growing number of high value add-on services and solutions. We bring together IBM Cloud infrastructure and VMware technologies to simplify configuration and management with ease of moving VMware workloads from on-premise to the IBM Cloud. In our fast paced and expanding organization, we foster an environment of continuous innovation and working in agile teams, to deliver the latest technology and provide excellent support to our clients. We are hiring motivated software engineers to be part of our dynamic development team to build and maintain these automation solutions, including a growing number of high value add-on services and solutions.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Qualified candidates will be working on:

• Developing and maintaining automation of software solutions in VMware environments
• Following compliant procedures and secure engineering best practices
• Ensuring monitoring and alerting of all components part our managed VMware platform by using Veeam One Alerts
• Reviewing and tuning of operational dashboards to provide observability in non-alerting areas to see if alerting needs to be added
• Adjusting monitor and alert thresholds and severities of our managed VMware platform
• Reviewing customer discovered incidents to consider additional adjustments
• Reviewing alerts that resulted in incidents to ensure all were actionable
• Driving monitoring and alerting strategy for all new features that are developed (governance)
• Reviewing and analyzing production issues to tune configuration parameters for the alerts

The role is very important in our ability to deliver valuable automated and integrated solutions in IBM Cloud. In our fast-paced and expanding organization, we foster an environment of continuous innovation and working in agile teams, to deliver the latest technology and provide excellent support to our clients.

Visit our VMware Solutions page (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware) for more details on our offerings on IBM Cloud.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience.
• 3+ years of experience with designing, implementing, administering and operating VMware Aria Suite of products, vCenter, NSX, ESXi, Cloud Director, etc.
• 2+ years of experience with system automation, scripting (Python or Powershell), and development
• 2+ years of experience with designing, implementing, and operating VMware Aria Operations to monitor, build alerting, manage dashboards
• 2+ years of experience with Linux system administration or development
• 2+ years of experience with software engineering and testing
• Good communication skills in English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience with Ansible
• 3+ years of experience with VMware API integration development
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud networking, including VMware NSX
• 3+ years of experience with IBM Cloud API integration development
• 3+ years of experience with Windows Active Directory administration or development
• 3+ years of experience with Windows SQL server administration or development
• 3+ years of experience with Jenkins build and platforms
• 3+ years of experience with Web UI development
• 3+ years of experience with GitHub issue and code management
• 3+ years of experience with networking, and network security components, firewalls, gateways
• 3+ years of experience with secure engineering principles and best practices
• 3+ years of experience with security standards, authentication, authorization, and encryption protocols
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• 2+ years of experience with Telegraf
• 2+ years of experience with VeeamOne