DevOps Engineer

Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based services.

IBM Cloud Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading- edge, highly available, secure, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud.

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join us. You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven engineering team responsible for researching, designing , architecting and implementing highly tested, robust, reliable IBM cloud infrastructure.

This role involves a mix of development, operational duties, strategic planning, and end-user support. 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.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be:

• Researching, designing, architecting and developing highly secure, compliant, available common base automation solutions/tooling, using technologies like Terraform, Python, GoLang, NodeJs, Bash in an IBM Cloud context (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, DevOps pipeline, Akamai etc).

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers into implementing solutions

• Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows.

• Documenting and sharing your experience with other teams.

• Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Services ecosystem.

• 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)

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Cloud environment in the role of DevOps

• Familiarity with continuous integration & continuous deployment tools and strategies.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).

• 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.

• Demonstrated experience of leading a squad for atleast 2+ years.

• 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 experience

Knowledge of IBM Cloud services and management, with an emphasis on deploying and scaling applications in a cloud environment

• 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

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