Introduction For over 100 years and with a presence in 170 countries, IBM has cultivated a diverse portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems, and software. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM facilitates the global changes across various industries through our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and internet of things As an IBMer, “be essential” to the growth and development for the success of our clients. To ensure a secure and reliable distributed cloud infrastructure, we are looking for an individual to design and implement back-end security infrastructure processes for IBM Cloud. This position provides the opportunity to be a key part of the team delivering the networks, infrastructure, and services for the world-class experience that IBM Cloud provides.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Coordinate with various infrastructure, security, and compliance teams for critical initiatives including proactive patching, security exceptions, and benchmark standards.
Assist with institutional compliance, audits, and emergency patching as needed.
Document and review of existing and emergent processes to ensure security/compliance.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Excellent communication skills and experience with ticketing, change management, and documentation software (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub/Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.).
1+ years of experience using security remediation strategies to solve problems.
3+ years of combined practical experience with Linux (RHEL/CentOS preferred) and Windows Server.
1+ years of practical experience with one or more virtualization technologies: Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer (Preferred), VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.
Proficiency with one or more languages: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, etc.
Applicable experience with solving problems via configuration management software (e.g. Ansible, Chef, SCCM, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.), by creating roles/runbooks/etc.
Experience with container technologies: Kubernetes (preferred), OpenShift, Docker, etc.
Practical experience with NMS (e.g. Zabbix, Nagios) and log aggregation (e.g. Splunk).
Practical knowledge with Networking and Storage technologies.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Previous institutional compliance or regulatory administration experience.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM discipline.
Experience in process improvement and automation development using both in-house/proprietary and third-party software.
Experience managing software/application development and related IT infrastructure.
Experience with Windows GPO and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM).
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.
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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 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
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