Introduction
At IBM, we are driven to shift our technology to an as-a-service model and to help our clients transform themselves to take full advantage of the cloud. With industry leadership in AI, analytics, security, commerce, and quantum computing and with unmatched hardware and software design and industrial research capabilities, no other company is as well positioned to address the full opportunity of enterprise cloud computing. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our IBM Cloud VPC Observability team. This team is dedicated to ensuring that IBM Cloud is at the forefront of reliable enterprise cloud technology. We are building platforms to deliver performance, reliability and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership efficiency, resiliency and security. If you are someone who wants to know what it takes to build a scalable, secure and reliable service and want to grow your technical depth in all aspects of Site Reliability Engineer including security, monitoring, automation, development, infrastructure, self-healing, troubleshooting and are a go-getter with an ownership mindset, we may be the right team for you.
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Your role and responsibilities
IBM is hiring for a cloud development manager position supporting the IBM Cloud Databases (ICD) service. ICD is a PaaS solution providing PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etcd, MongoDB, MySQL, Datastax, EnterpriseDB, and RabbitMQ in IBM data centers around the globe.
You will provide day-to-day project and people leadership to our platform and user interface squads. Each squad has a global team of software developers implementing new features, developing automation to streamline ongoing operational tasks, and participating in operational rotations to respond to system-alerts and customer support tickets. You will be responsible for how the squad works day-to-day and its deliverables, including planning of squad activities, reporting status, and breaking down obstacles. You will participate in squad meetings (planning, scrums, reflections). As a member of the management team, you will also join an operations management rotation (daytime only, including weekends) where you will be the primary escalation point for daytime operators to work through and manage high urgency operational issues or client impacting events.
Candidates should have a strong desire to work within an agile environment, have a passion for embracing new cloud technologies, and working with our customers to ensure they are successful. You need to be collaborative, able to handle responsibility, and love learning new techniques and tools.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Experience with agile project management methodologies or similar
• Experience with cloud development lifecycle
• Experience with leading cross-functional software development teams as a team lead or manager
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Track record in leading teams to breakdown, size, and track complex requirements into a software delivery plan that may span multiple squads
• A solid engineering underpinning to understand and learn the architecture of the cloud service
• Exposure to technologies such as Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Databases
• Great communication and negotiation skills where they can coach and support team members to work through technical obstacles
• Ability to self-prioritize squad work based on organizational missions, customer impact, and squad feedback
• Ability to self-prioritize issues based on customer impact
• Understanding of requirements for cloud, security, compliance, high availability, and resiliency.
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