MQ DevOps Engineer

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As part of the MQ Operations team, you will play a critical role in ensuring that every product release meets the high standards of quality our customers expect. In this role, you will maintain and optimize the performance of a diverse range of machines and platforms within our testing infrastructure. You'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and security of these systems, working closely with internal stakeholders to align testing with real-world needs.

This is an office-based role, offering the opportunity to collaborate directly with experienced team members who will support your integration into the team, department, and wider IBM community. You'll thrive in a fast-paced, global environment, demonstrating strong personal organization, adaptability, and a proactive mindset. We're looking for someone who communicates clearly, solves problems creatively.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Operations:
  Maintain and optimize the performance of multiple machines and platforms used in testing environments.
• Monitoring & Reporting:
  Implement tools and dashboards to monitor system health and performance metrics.
• Process Improvement:
  Identify inefficiencies and contribute to automation and process enhancements to improve productivity and reduce downtime.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
  Work with internal teams to ensure testing infrastructure meets evolving requirements.

A successful individual for this role should possess:

• Several years of experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Ansible, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, python)
• Strong proficiency in machine administration and developing tools/automations for system maintenance.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container orchestration.
• Strong analytical and problem solving expertise, with the ability to investigate issues and apply fixes throughout the deployment landscape
• A good understanding of using development tools such as Git, VS Code, make etc.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks, proactively driving them to their completion.
• Automation skills in testing, scripting (e.g. Bash), pipelines, and utilities.
• Experience in monitoring, alerting and dashboarding.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 6/7+ years experience in daily management and maintenance of infrastructure.
• 6/7+ years of experience in one or more programming languages like Ansible, Javascript, Node.js, Perl, Python etc.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure maintenance like performing system upgrades, applying software patches, managing user accounts/permissions, ensuring infrastructure remains complaint with company policies and security standards.
• Strong proficiency in Automation/Scripting in Infrastructure maintenance domain.
• Strong expertise in Windows servers maintenance, various flavours of Linux/Unix server maintenance.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies
• Ability to take ownership of tasks, proactively driving them to their completion.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell, Bash)
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and tools.
• Knowledge of Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure
• Experience with IBM MQ.

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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-55732

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-02T18:48:24