SaaS – Infrastructure Manager, IBM Concert, Automation

Introduction
SaaS Infra Managers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today – planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM is trailblazing new cloud technologies and services that span key technology areas that includes Security Services, Business Support Systems, and Identity and Access Management capabilities running on IBM’s industry leading Containers platform. We are looking for experienced candidates with a broad array of full-stack development skills that span both backend, UI development, test automation and DevOps. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern cloud services. In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with the cloud platform integration, orchestration/provisioning, security, and DevOps. Cloud software developers are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis, and work with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome technical blockers.

Who You Are:
The IBM Concert SaaS Team is looking for a talented, innovative and enthusiastic Cloud Infra Manager who will build the next generation cloud and security services to make our customers succeed.

What You Will Do:
IBM Automation has a global cloud presence that continues to grow and expand its reach. Our Cloud Platform engineering team is responsible for delivering Platform services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality. An IBM Cloud DevOps engineer will be the key individual responsible for development of DevOps, Security, Monitoring tooling, for new cloud services on the IBM Cloud Platform. You will get to work with Fortune 100 Enterprise clients and build hyperscale cloud services for the largest companies in the world. We are a global team, so communication skills (both verbal and written) are critical as well as flexibility to work with team members in other time zones.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• About 12-15 years of experience in the role of DevOps engineer, Infra engineer. Experience building DevOps tooling for a truly distributed architecture based system will be huge plus along with people management for a min 6-8yrs exp.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices & tools, logging and monitoring tools
• Experience implementing distributed applications in a container environment (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift)
• We believe in automating everything, and the expectation is to create automated/automatable solutions.
• Caching is a key skill in the cloud, and a strong candidate will exhibit exceptional skills with local and edge caching solutions.
• The ability to debug web based solutions on both client and server sides would be a skill of the preferred candidate
• Working knowledge on any of NodeJS, GitHub, python, Ansible and Java.
• Familiarity with Jenkins as build driving a full unit test, build verification, and production code delivery pipeline.
• Ability to stand up and configure software solutions in a cloud environment

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Having hands on experience with designing and developing microservices is also preferred.
• Passion for DevOps, Security and interest in learning emerging technologies
• Candidate would be expected to self-starting and self-motivating.
• Agile development.
• A security minded individual is required.
• Delivery pipeline for CI / CD / Ops
• Integraiton with Monitoring and Logging tools
• Gather insights from alerts and logs
• Provide clear and advance communication to colleagues and stakeholders about upcoming system changes
• Take initiative to substantially improve customer and colleague workflows
• Use advanced new technologies judiciously to reduce complexity.
• Opportunity to work directly with customers utilizing the latest Data and AI applications.