DevOps SRE

Introduction

Software Developers 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 best in class 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

As a Software Engineer in the IBM Cloud, you will design and build a service that allows customers to create cloud storage solutions that are secure, reliable completely elastic, and are scalable to support IBM's enterprise customers. Delivering a reliable, completely elastic, and are scalable to support IBM's enterprise customers. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at IBM requires engineers with extraordinary technical expertise and boundless creativity. At IBM, engineers will interact customers, to understand out business goals and to innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality. The successful candidate will work directly with his team and various teams within IBM Hybrid Cloud to ensure the stability and availability of the Cloud Object Storage offering. IBM is seeking creative and responsible talent who can work well with others and are able to build a service that is enterprise-class. If you want the opportunity to grow your technical and professional skills while helping customers succeed, IBM is the place for you. IF you are exciting for the opportunity to dig into challenging operational issues and to help costumers build the next generation of web applications, the IBM Cloud is a great fit.

Responsibilities Include:

• Design and development of new features

• Minimizing and hardening microservices and public-facing API gateway attack surface

• Continuous delivery using tools such as Tekton, Travis, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes

• Observability, capacity planning, system and service performance analysis and tuning

• Orchestrating cloud services using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Tekton

• Debugging problems in production and test environments

• Developing automation that improves deployment speed and service reliability in the containerized environment.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 5+ years of industry experience in designing, implementing, and supporting a geographically dispersed and highly available storage infrastructure

• Strong enterprise class software development experience

• Strong foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms

• A rigorous approach to problem-solving

• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork

• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep dive

• Experience with production SAAS cloud hosted environments

• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, VMware, Azure, and/or IBM Cloud

• Programming skills - scripting, Go, Python, C/C++, Java, or similar

• Must be proficient in writing, debugging, and maintaining automation, scripts and code (ie, Bash, Ansible, and Python, Java or Golang)

• Hands-on experience with Container technologies: Kubernetes (IKS, GCE), RedHat OpenShift, Docker.

• Hands on experience with Cloud deployment

• Hands-on experience with Container technologies: Kubernetes (IKS, GCE), RedHat OpenShift, Docker.

• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools: Tekton, Ansible Tower, Terraform, Github, JIRA

• Metrics, monitoring and Logging: statsd, ELK, PagerDuty, Slack, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Logstash

• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Ability to administrate, configure, optimize and monitor services and/or servers at scale.

• Use of modern container systems such as Docker, Vagrant, Rancher, AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Developing, maintaining and managing storage systems

• Knowledge of data transmission, network, and replication technologies and capabilities

• Knowledge of Information Lifecycle Management and tiered storage models

• Knowledge of cloud native development models

• Databases: CouchDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Oracle

• L2-L7 frame/packet/session inspection: netflow, WAF, pcap

• Other tooling: Linkerd, Contour, Hashicorp Consul and Vault, Open Policy Agent

• Industry experience in network support tools such as Wireshark, TCPDump, SmokePing, Dig, iperf, MTR, etc.

• Skill in troubleshooting, problem identification and resolution of networking issues

• Network protocols/technologies: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), IPv4/6, Internet Protocol Security (IPSec VPN), Server Load Balancing

• Experience with common Internet protocols such as DNS, NTP, LDAP and GSLB

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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