DevOps Developer

Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The shift toward the consumption of IT as a service, i.e., the cloud, is one of the most important changes to happen to our industry in decades. At IBM, we are driven to shift our technology to an as-a-service model and to help our clients transform themselves to take full advantage of the cloud. With industry leadership in analytics, security, commerce and cognitive computing and with unmatched hardware and software design and industrial research capabilities, no other company is as well positioned to address the full opportunity of cloud computing.

We’re looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join IBM Cloud team as a Infrastructure as a Code Developer and work on setting up company-wide infrastructure and ensuring their availability, reliability, security, and compliance. This role involves a mix of development, operational duties, strategic planning, and end-user support. You will be part of a strong, agile team that boasts of deep technical expertise, has a significant business impact, and enjoys a high level of operational flexibility. We are running IBM’s next generation cloud platform to deliver performance and predictability for our customers’ most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients.
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage the full lifecycle of code changes from development to deployment, including code reviews, testing and operations.
• Use of various open-source tools for instrumenting, monitoring, alerting, and debugging of production services.
• Participate in on-call rotations along with the other members of the team to maintain the uptime of our services out of hours.
• Participate in architectural discussions and help drive the future of our services as we continually strive to provide best-in-class experiences for IBM development teams.
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies and methodologies with high focus on Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, Akamai etc)
• Provide exceptional end-user support, collaborating with development teams to understand their needs and optimize their build processes.
• As a DevOps engineer and work on setting up company-wide infrastructure and ensuring their availability, reliability, security and compliance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 2+ years of experience in Cloud environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with continuous integration & continuous deployment tools and strategies.
• Demonstrated experience working with Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, Akamai).
• Proficient in any one of the high-level programming language such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or Go.
• Desire to design, build, and maintain highly efficient, secure and scalable software build systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and data structures/algorithms fundamentals.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated skills with troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining and improving existing software.
• Experience working with any version control system (Git preferred).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of IBM Cloud services and management
• Experience using cloud-native systems for monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
• Solid foundation in Linux internals, including system calls, file systems, and kernel debugging
• Understanding of endpoint security best practices (TLS, HTTPS, TLS Certificates, WAF, Network Traffic Analysis)
• Understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Knowledge of security testing techniques to identify vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure.
• Genuine interest in building efficient and highly performant software
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to changing technical environments