Staff System Development Engineer

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk

Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are:
We are IBM ZOS (Z Operating System, Open Source Linux Tools team, professional working on Z Enterprise Systems and we build the most secure systems for our Enterprise customers to deploy their mission critical applications. We support open source linux commands on Z operating systems for improved and better user experience. The mission critical applications run on zOS and users familiar with Linux commands require a comaparable experience on z/OS that include the shell utilities , commands, containers. Our IBM z/OS customers heavily rely on this operating system with the linux like shell capabilities making z/OS easy to use platform.

What you’ll do:
To Build the world most simplest management system via Z systems that helps customers easily work with z/OS using z/OS Unix System Services that provides UNIX like working environment for the users

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to prototype and implement innovative solution for the product initiatives.
• Write clean, readable, scalable, and efficient code, conducting rigorous testing
• Review component, and associated component code pull requests, and provide constructive feedback on the changes from team members.
• Identify test scenarios and build test cases. Unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests
• Incorporate test automation with the workflow processes
• Perform test activities in virtual, or real environments for various levels of test including component, system, and system level integration.
• Participate in weekly sprints and provide status to Iteration Manager, coordinate and giving sprint demos
• Deliver the stories associated with the initiatives in timely manner.
• Identify, triage, and resolve defects that are found during various test phases.
• Provide timely and effective communication while collaborating with local and remote team members and stakeholders
• Look for opportunities for client engagement and drive the discussions with clients and stakeholders under the guidance of product owner.
• Drive various activities related to product hygiene by following the organisation security practices, Accessibility test, product builds.
• Build and extend the continuous integration environment for automation of the delivery pipeline.

How we’ll help you grow:

• You’ll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
• You’ll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be.
• You’ll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our team leads like to mentor
• You have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of 3+ years of experience as C Developer in UNIX/Linux environment
• Strong skills in developing code in C with UNIX/Linux
• Working experience with C programming language required
• Code Development and Testing experience required
• Experience with code build mechanisms, compilers
• Strong debugging skils and able to quickly root cause issues, experience in performing code reviews
• Familiarity with and test tools
• Experience with Security development tools and processes.
• Software development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience with DevOps tooling (Git, Jenkins, Jira, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. teaming), with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Collaboration across disciplines and teams, able to work effectively in a global team environment.
• Organizational skills. Able to handle multiple tasks and prioritize a busy workload.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• zOS architecture
• Familiarity with Golang programming language is a plus
• Familiarity with the concept of containers, Kubernetes orchestration is an added benefit
• Familiar with z/OS and z/VM
• Dump reading using Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS). Ability to interpret logs and dumps.