IBM

Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Introduction
Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based platform services.

IBM Cloud Platform Core Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We're looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams to solve complex problems.

We are looking for experienced candidates with a broad array of DevOps and SRE skills that span both backend, test automation and Cloud. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring at least 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern cloud services. In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with the cloud platform integration, orchestration/provisioning, security, and DevOps. Cloud software developers are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis, and work with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome technical blockers.

You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class cloud services, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
  • Developing and supporting customer/business requirements.
  • Developing tools for support teams to enable them to quickly respond to customer requests.
  • Helping service providers to successfully onboard onto the Cloud platform.
  • Create and own CI/CD pipelines to build, test and deploy using Jenkins or similar tools
  • Perform security scans to identify vulnerabilities in the code / environment
  • Configure, maintain and optimize cloud containers
  • Conduct system tests for security, performance and availability
  • Partnering with Global Teams to provide 24/7 production support.
  • Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem
  • Developing highly available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more.
  • Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and workflows
  • Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others
  • Additional responsibilities include:
  • Developing knowledge of major cloud technologies aligned with the IBM Cloud Platform, and additional knowledge or experience in the areas of IT and/or cloud technology architecture (service management and/or resiliency is a plus).
  • Implementing modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient, and reusable code.
  • Identifying and addressing design, development, and delivery performance bottlenecks.
  • Actively participating in code and design reviews.
  • Coaching, educating, and evangelizing development best practices.
  • Leveraging monitoring tools to gain insight into performance or potential failure points and take corrective action
  • Coordinating with support and development teams that Cloud Platform Development interacts with to follow up on dependencies and issues and resolve them.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise
  • Proven Experience:
  • 5yeasr+ of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
  • System Monitoring and Troubleshooting:
  • Strong skills in system monitoring, issue response, and troubleshooting for optimal system performance.
  • Automation Proficiency:
  • Proficiency in automation for production environment changes, streamlining processes for efficiency.
  • Collaborative Mindset:
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to partner seamlessly with cross-functional teams for shared success.
  • Effective Communication Skills:
  • Excellent communication skills, essential for effective integration planning and swift issue resolution.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
  • None

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.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?



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.

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.

Location Statement
When applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience.

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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