Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
The mission of the Competitive Researcher / Developer is to conduct hands-on competitive research comparing IT solutions deployed on IBM Z / LinuxONE against equivalent or comparable IT solutions based on x86 servers and cloud platforms.
- The IT solutions might include transactional, database, web, cloud-native, and AI workloads.
- The research requires the implementation and performance testing of various types of cloud-native and other solutions.
- The outputs of the competitive research are performance analysis, Total Cost of Ownership, and other assets that objectively compare IBM Z and LinuxONE vs competing platforms.
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Quick learner who continuously acquires new expertise and skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- The ability to work productively across the infrastructure (operations), development, and product teams.
- Agile development methodology and tools.
- Understanding fundamentals of performance engineering.
- IT architecture and design skills.
Required technical skills and product experience:
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - admin, build, deploy, instrument, etc. containerized applications for multi-architecture environments.
- K6 testing, bash scripting.
- Instana, Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB.
- VMWare vSphere, KVM.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Relational and non-relational databases - Db2, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
- Understanding of z/OS and z/VM operating systems, and VMRM.
- IBM and competitor IT automation solutions.
- IBM and competitor AI solutions.
- Experience with delivering solutions on public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud.
In Return:
- Company-paid training and certifications
- Access to fully functional lab facility for education purposes and problem recreation
- Work in a team with leading specialists
- Company support for home office equipment
- Competitive remuneration package
- Diverse job role structure giving opportunities for growth within the team.
- Hybrid working model with flexibility to work from home on a regular basis.
- A workplace in an open, friendly hi-tech environment
- Recognition awards
- Additional health coverage
- Special offers and discounts/ corporate badge program
- Did we mention free coffee, snacks?
- Eco friendly travellers are welcome to the office - parking places for bikers and monthly allowance for transportation are available to all employees
- Referral bonus program
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