Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are:

• In this position you will be working on Platform Engineering team

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.