Senior Infrastructure Engineer - HashiCorp

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

This engineering role is part of a growing team focused on infrastructure touching multiple engineering domains. Success in this role requires collaboration skills, a product-driven mindset, and comfort with agile iteration.As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll drive infrastructure changes while maintaining and improving our cloud backbone. Leveraging expertise in site reliability and/or infrastructure engineering, you'll optimize our HashiStack to ensure performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.Responsibilities include leading/participating in incident response, coordinating with stakeholders, and using advanced troubleshooting to resolve and prevent future incidents. Additionally, you'll champion incident post-mortems, improve response through exercises, and advance innovation in incident management.
You will leverage your deep understanding of core infrastructure components and technologies such as: base images, and our HashiStack to ensure our infrastructure is not only robust and scalable but also optimized for performance and cost.
Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Optimisation: Develop and implement strategies to enhance the consumption interface, performance, scalability, and reliability of HashiCorp's infrastructure.
• Software Development: Develop software solutionsDesign and refine processes for the usability of infrastructure resources, increasing efficiency and reducing manual overhead.
• Monitoring and Incident Response: Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address issues. Lead the response to infrastructure incidents, minimizing impact on service availability and performance.
• Drive Systemic Improvements to the products by introducing Chaos Testing and partnering with product development teams.
• Knowledge Sharing: Serve as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies and practices.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related field, with a proven track record of managing complex, cloud-based infrastructure at scale and system administration
• Good technical understanding in designing and implementing large-scale systems and infrastructure solutions, with a deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Nomad, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Hands-on experience with IBM tools (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad) and other key technologies, including cloud services, DevOps tooling, and automation platforms.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Go), with experience writing production-level code and integrating it into complex systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a strong track record of leading incident response efforts, driving root cause analysis and resolution, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues
• A strong understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement, staying abreast of the latest industry trends and technologies.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with HashiCorp & IBM Products and Services

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-70578

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-06T18:47:36