Software Engineer DevOps
Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
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
We're looking for a skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our robust hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring it's scalable, reliable, and secure. You'll work closely with our development, operations, and security teams, acting as a technical DevOps leader to optimize our cloud environments, streamline deployment processes, and mentor junior engineers. Your expertise will be crucial in designing and maintaining our advanced DevSecOps pipelines and supporting complex automations.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Automate and Optimize: Design and implement advanced automation and orchestration strategies to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management. You will be a key contributor to our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated processess and deployment are efficient and reliable.
- Manage Containerization: Oversee the management and optimization of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS). Your expertise will be key in implementing service mesh solutions like Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh.
- Monitor and Troubleshoot: Proactively monitor and troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. You will be instrumental in developing and refining our observability and logging strategies.
- Test Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive test plans and execute test cases to ensure software products meet quality standards and requirements.
- Collaborative Development: Work closely with development teams to identify potential weak spots, inefficiencies, and issues within software systems, fostering a collaborative approach to software quality.
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Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with multi-cloud deployments and advanced services (e.g., Azure AKS).
- Quality Assurance: Deliver quality functions for development teams, supporting test-driven development frameworks and ensuring rigorous quality standards are met throughout the software development lifecycle.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
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.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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