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Your Role and Responsibilities We are looking for an Individual who will be responsible for designing, implementing and deploying shared system resources, like disks and networking. You will also work on performance analysis and troubleshooting, data recovery strategies for critical systems along with data backup measures. You must be highly skilled in storage hardware architectures, high-level programming languages, distributed file systems, network protocols and data storage applications. You are required to stay up-to-date on new technologies to ensure that we offer the latest solutions to our clients.
"What you will do (Roles & Responsibilities) : Are you interested in developing Cloud and Open Source?
Your favourite operating system is Linux? Would you like to be part of an Open Source community and do you intend to build a world class Infrastructure as a service ( IAAS ) software . Are you passionate about bringing in your expertise and developing your career in an International Agile development culture?
If so, our team is the right place for you!
Our Linux infrastructure is responsible for providing enterprise class solution to create virtual machines on IBM Z and IBM Linux One systems to perform lifecycle operations. The software manages relationships between data centre resources like servers, Storage and network and allocate them to specific projects and users according to a role-based schema.
The product also support API Communication to integrate with the Platform as a service ( PAAS ) layer and also compatible with Ansible playbooks to automate the VM creation and lifecycle management.
The enablement of automation tool like Ansible / Terraform enable customers to effortlessly bring up their environments without necessitating a deep understanding of the IBM Z platform.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
3+ years of industry experience in Storage Development, distributed systems, micro-services architecture
Strong technical skills in storage system architecture.
Proven Storage domain knowledge with hands-on experience on storage software stack implementation and features like High availability, storage multi-pathing solutions.
Good understanding of storage protocols such as Fibre Channel, FCoE, SCSI, iSCSI, LLDP, SAN, Multipath IO
Strong skills in Unix/Linux internals – Hands-on in multi-threading, synchronisation, interrupt handling & file systems, Kernel programming
Proven knowledge of S/W development process & tools for product development/debugging using Python language, Shell scripting,Rest API, Storage Management API (SMAPI),
Good understanding of IO Virtualisation (KVM, VMWare), Container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, OCP)
Understanding of GPFS, Fabric Switch Configuration,Volume attach/reattach
Familiarity with Host OS virtualisation
Ability to go through protocol specifications.
Good problem-solving skills for resolving complex issues with interdependencies across multiple modules
Knowledge and hand-on usage of code and defect management tools.
Strong English written/verbal communication skills to report program status crisply and accurately.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
2+ years Experience with Flash Storage or other Storage systems
Good to have understanding of TTV API, RACF database
Experience in Backup/Data-protection, Storage products
Experience in GitHub Pull Request development workflow.
Experience / Knowledge of block storage replication/concepts
Proficiency in cloud platforms - AWS and IBM Cloud.
Understanding of network fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, routing, and subnetting etc)
Understanding of Network security principles, including firewalls, encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance standards.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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