Senior Staff Development Engineer

Introduction

India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996, the Lab is headquartered in India's Silicon Valley and startup hub - Bengaluru, with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire Systems portfolio - z Systems, Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design, firmware, operating system to software defined storage. The lab also focuses on innovations, thanks to the creative energies of the teams. The lab has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far.

While computing veers towards cognitive, cloud, mobile, social, and security, the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas, but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile, Design Thinking and DevOps.

We are IBM Z/OSMF (Z Operating System, Management Facility), professional working on Z Enterprise Systems that build simplied web based UI to manage various aspects of z/OS. It helps in improving productivity of z/OS System Programmer productivity. It provides this ability through simplified , streamlined and automated tasks in the form of workflows that are quite easy to learn and use. z/OSMF provides both browser based and programmatic interfaces. It provide paltform and language independent REST APIs to write custom programs to manage the z/OS resources. z/OSMF also comes with various plugins to manage various aspects of z/OS. Users can get various functionalities of z/OSMF such as ServerPac Installation, guided software updates, services catalog and more.

Your role and responsibilities

To Build the world most simplest management system via Z systems that helps customers easily manager their resources, to contrinute to z/OS Management Facility (ZOSMF) provides a series of capabilities for System Programmers

• Build High Level Design of the assigned enhancements by working/getting guidance from Product Owner

Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers to prototype and implement innovative solution for the product initiatives.

• Write clean, readable, scalable, and efficient code, conducting rigorous testing

• Review component, and associated component code pull requests, and provide constructive feedback on the changes from team members.

• Identify test scenarios and build test cases. Unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests

• Incorporate test automation with the workflow processes

• Perform test activities in virtual, or real environments for various levels of test including component, system, and system level integration.

• Participate in weekly sprints and provide status to Iteration Manager, coordinate and giving sprint demos

• Deliver the stories associated with the initiatives in timely manner.

• Identify, triage, and resolve defects that are found during various test phases.

• Provide timely and effective communication while collaborating with local and remote team members and stakeholders

• Look for opportunities for client engagement and drive the discussions with clients and stakeholders under the guidance of product owner.

• Drive various activities related to product hygiene by following the organisation security practices, Accessibility test, product builds.

• Build and extend the continuous integration environment for automation of the delivery pipeline.

• Ready to lead a team of engineers, provide necessary support, collaborate closely to reach the desired business objective

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Must Have :

A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a Full stack development role

• Strong skills in developing code in Java, Python Java Script, React, Angular experience in developing code interfaces such as REST APIs/Websockets.

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks/libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow. Strong mathematical and statistics principles, model training

• Exposure to Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI , LLM concepts

• Strong experience with Application servers such as Liberty , frameworks/libraries e.g., J2EE, Jakarta

• Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating frontend applications with backend services. , Experience with data formats such as JSON, XML

• Strong debugging skils and able to quickly root cause issues, experience in performing code reviews

• Familiarity with unit, functional and system test frameworks, tools

• Experience with Security development tools and processes.

• Software development experience in an Agile environment

• Experience with DevOps tooling (Git, Jenkins, Maven, Jira, etc.)

• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. teaming), with strong verbal and written communication skills and leading a team of developers

• Collaboration across disciplines and teams, able to work effectively in a global team environment.

• Organizational skills. Able to handle multiple tasks and prioritize a busy workload.

• Experience in leading a team, mission ownership

Preferred technical and professional experience

- zOS architecture

• Familiar with z/OS and z/VM

• Dump reading using Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS). Ability to interpret logs and dumps

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