DevOps Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with software development and IT teams to improve and automate processes for software deployment and infrastructure management.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain Kubernetes clusters for containerized applications.
• Manage Docker containers and orchestration, ensuring efficient workflows and minimizing downtime.
• Write and maintain efficient Shell scripts and automation tools to streamline operations.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python and JavaScript for system integration, deployment, and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve system issues related to networking, infrastructure, and application environments.
• Maintain and optimize Red Hat/UBI Linux environments, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
• Collaborate with network engineers to implement and optimize networking solutions in a cloud-native environment.
• Stay up to date with emerging DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices to continually improve systems and processes.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 9+ years of experience in DevOps or related field with hands-on experience
• Source and project control (GitHub Enterprise, Jira) - hands-on
• Automation with Jenkins, Go, Python, Java script, Ansible, Shell scripting
• Monitoring and logging tools (sysdig, logdna)
• Continuous Integration platforms (ArgoCD, Jenkins, Terraform)
• Kubernetes CKA certificate
• Experience with one or more:
  • IKS IBM kubernetes service , GKE - Google kubernetes engine, EKS - Amazon Elastic Service, AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service
• OpenShift
• Docker
• Linux - primarily RedHat
• Load balancing, geo routing, and proxying
• Networking - Firewalls and Load Balancing (Vyatta, StrongSwan)
• NoSQL databases, key-stores and other data-structure solutions (MongoDB, Redis)
• Relational DB's (DB2, Oracle)
• Virtual application and web servers (Apache, NGINX, WebSphere, IIS)
• Fluency in English - both verbal and written

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Deployment tools and processes, CI/CD Pipeline, ArgoCD
• Hands-on experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, or other cloud technologies
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process, including strong expertise building REST APIs

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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