IBM IBM Automation Site Reliability Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, Winchester 

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• Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain IBM Automation for SaaS products on multiple hyperscalers.
• Use continuous integration tools like ArgoCD and Artifactory to build automation pipelines to deploy different service workloads for IBM Automation SaaS products.
• Collaborate with multiple development teams to enable a continuous integration environment that is highly resilient and emphasizes defect prevention techniques.
• Design and implement automation for deployment, monitoring, logging, alerting of large-scale distributed SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated skills in leadership, communication, coaching, analysis, problem solving and short term and long-term planning.
• Goal oriented, forward thinker that can provide solutions for complex technical problems.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Several years of experience in:

• Virtualization, containerization technologies, containers orchestration software and cloud platforms
• Kubernetes or Openshift clusters administration and configuration management
• Usage of cloud services (Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Languages: GO, Python, Bash
• CI/CD Pipelines: ArgoCD, Tekton, jfrog Artifactory
• Experience in observability and alerting systems, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana, open telemetry or similar systems
• Development and operation of fully managed SaaS services
• Source Control Tools: Git
• Excellent communication skills
• FinOps or cloud optimization software

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experiencing developing tools that promotes automation within a SaaS environment
• Open-source software development
• Strong Linux/Unix skills within a cloud environment
• Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP)