We’re looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join IBM Cloud team as a Infrastructure as a Code Developer and work on setting up company-wide infrastructure and ensuring their availability, reliability, security, and compliance. This role involves a mix of development, operational duties, strategic planning, and end-user support. You will be part of a strong, agile team that boasts of deep technical expertise, has a significant business impact, and enjoys a high level of operational flexibility. We are running IBM’s next generation cloud platform to deliver performance and predictability for our customers’ most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Manage the full lifecycle of code changes from development to deployment, including code reviews, testing and operations.
- Use of various open-source tools for instrumenting, monitoring, alerting, and debugging of production services.
- Participate in on-call rotations along with the other members of the team to maintain the uptime of our services out of hours.
- Participate in architectural discussions and help drive the future of our services as we continually strive to provide best-in-class experiences for IBM development teams.
- Stay abreast of the latest technologies and methodologies with high focus on Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, Akamai etc)
- Provide exceptional end-user support, collaborating with development teams to understand their needs and optimize their build processes.
- As a DevOps engineer and work on setting up company-wide infrastructure and ensuring their availability, reliability, security and compliance.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in Cloud environment.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Familiarity with continuous integration & continuous deployment tools and strategies.
- Demonstrated experience working with Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, Akamai).
- Proficient in any one of the high-level programming language such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or Go.
- Desire to design, build, and maintain highly efficient, secure and scalable software build systems.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
- Demonstrated analytical skills and data structures/algorithms fundamentals.
- Demonstrated verbal and written communications skills.
- Demonstrated skills with troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining and improving existing software.
- Experience working with any version control system (Git preferred).
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Knowledge of IBM Cloud services and management
- Experience using cloud-native systems for monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
- Solid foundation in Linux internals, including system calls, file systems, and kernel debugging
- Understanding of endpoint security best practices (TLS, HTTPS, TLS Certificates, WAF, Network Traffic Analysis)
- Understanding of networking principles and protocols
- Knowledge of security testing techniques to identify vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure.
- Genuine interest in building efficient and highly performant software
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to changing technical environments