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Your Role and Responsibilities Who you are:
In this position you will be working on Platform Engineering team for Cloud Pack for Data Product
What you'll do:
Platform engineering refers to the process of designing, building, maintaining the underlying infrastructure and tools necessary to support and enable software development, deployment, and operations at scale.
The responsibilities of a platform engineer includes (but not limited to):
Designing and building the underlying infrastructure, such as servers, networks, and storage systems, that support the software applications and services.
Developing and managing the tools and services necessary for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment automation.
Defining and implementing the best practices for system configuration, health check monitoring, and performance optimization.
Ensuring the overall quality, security, compliance, and reliability of the platform.
Collaborating with software development teams to understand their needs & requirements and providing guidance and support to help them build and deploy their services on the platform.
Managing the platform’s lifecycle, including installs, upgrades, patching, and retirement
How we'll help you grow:
You will have access to all the technical training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
You will learn directly from senior members/leaders in this field"
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
3+ years of professional experience in software development using functional and/or object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, typescript/javascript
Hands-on experience on DevOps tools like Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible etc
Kubernetes Certification will be an added advantage
Used Jenkins or similar tools to create CI/CD pipelines.
Managed Docker Orchestration and Docker Containerization using Kubernetes, Openshift etc
Expertise in Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu etc.)
Working knowledge of Ansible based install/deployment automation.
Programming skills using languages such as Java/Python
Good knowledge in Shell Scripting/Bash, setting up Jenkins pipelines
Familiarity in integration of heterogenous services in a hybrid environment
Experience with relational and non relational databases
Familiarity with IBM Cloud or AWS or Azure is a plus"
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with any one modern programming language like NodeJS, Javascript, Python, GO.
Experience with Source control management (eg Git): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
Knowledge of any automation testing framework.
Experience with containers, containers orchestration software, cloud platforms.
Experience automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins.
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.
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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