IBM Senior Development Architect 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

948120455

• Experienced in conceptualization, analysis, architecture, solution design and development of software products and services. This involves engaging in and improving the lifecycle of a observability service built for monitoring, eventing, logging, dashboarding etc. from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Experienced in using ML or Generative AI to build analytics and AI usecases, demonstrate value from inception to implementation including collaboration with the appropriate stakeholders
• Experience in building, training & deploying ML models and automation of these activities
• Adopt and build on automation solutions governed by SRE principles including CI CD pipelines, configuration management, immutable infrastructure deployment, auto healing systems etc.
• Ensure compliance and security integrity of the environment and build secure practices. Have a deep understanding of how security impacts each stage of the development pipeline and the final product or service. Identify gaps and embed secure practices into our processes.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing, testing and identifying software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Work with and adopt open source technologies as well as participate in new IBM innovations across IaaS
• A self-driven attitude to propose, test and implement solutions and improvements for review and consideration with your peers
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post mortem.
• In addition, you will mentor, share expertise and help build a self sustaining tea
• You will also work with wider teams to enable consumption of service, identify gaps and provide thought leadership.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experiences in building, deploying and managing large scale services / platforms for Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud or Google Cloud.
• Delivering micro services at scale; designing micro services solutions
• Good understanding of real time streaming analytics and batch data processing architectures.
• Familiarity with distributed architecture, event-driven architecture.
• Python, Go Lang experience (Can also have Java, Scala, Rust)
• Container orchestration, performance and security (Kubernetes / Docker)
• DevSecOps practices
• Experience with one or more of the following: NoSQL Databases (eg: Cassandra, Mongo), Columnar Databases (eg RedShift, Snowflake), Search Engines (eg Elastic Search), Spark, Hadoop.
• Sound understanding of data science concepts, model development & performance tuning processes as well as coding, version control and CI/CD best practices
• 2+ years UI Development experience using React (Can also have angular)
• Scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, shell
• Release Engineering (Git Branching, versioning, tagging) and experience with Agile software development
• CI/CD tooling (Preferred ArgoCD, Tekton)
• 1+ years experience with one or more of these Monitoring tools: Sysdig, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc..
• Experience with one or more automation and configuration management tools/solutions: Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, python, bash, puppet, Rundeck, etc.
• Working knowledge of Compute, Network, Storage and Virtualization technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly responsible, motivated, follow / establish development practices and able to work with little direction

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with design and development of complex system
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems and customer issues
• 5+ years experience in AI/ML model development and/or deployment of AI/ML workloads
• Experience designing & developing automated pipelines for data extraction, ML model training, ML model production deployments and production monitoring
• Working knowledge of Linux clustering, HA, and Fault Tolerant system
• implementations: active/active, active/passive, pacemaker, keepalived, haproxy, LVM
• Familiarity with implementation of one or more telemetry systems like Grafana-Loki, Mimir, OTel and their architectures
• 2+ years of experience with complex systems and layered architecture models: OSI, Kubernetes, virtualization, TCP/IP, etc.
• Data modeling and experience with data engineering tooling and platforms such as Kafka, Spark.
• Working knowledge of what TCP/IP, BGP, Sockets, routing protocols and how they participate in debugging and Highly available systems at scale.
• Ability to debug an issue across the entire OSI stack of a typical Linux environment across storage, network, compute, OS, system tuning, orchestration.
• Ability to debug stack traces to particular libraries in code and root cause identification.
• Extensive experience with databases and debugging their usage with application stacks
• Experience with and understanding of the interaction and dependencies of a typical three tier model of application stacks, as well as cloud