Introduction
IBM is a global technology and innovation company. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with presence in 170 countries. The diversity and breadth of the entire IBM portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems and software, unusually distinguishes IBM from other companies in the industry.
Over the past 100 years, a lot has changed at IBM, in this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries as diverse as healthcare, retail, banking, travel, manufacturing, and many more, by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things. We like to say, "be essential." We are changing how we craft. How we collaborate. How we analyze. How we engage.
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Business Unit Introduction
IBM Cloud is a one-stop shop which provides all the cloud solutions & cloud tools the industries need. IBM Cloud portfolio includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds.
IBM Cloud ensures seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. The infrastructure is secure, scalable, and flexible, providing customized enterprise solutions that have made IBM Cloud the Hybrid Cloud Market leader with our market leading IAAS and PAAS Platforms. The IBM Cloud platform is the public cloud offering from IBM providing services to global enterprises. IBM Cloud is the Cloud for Smarter Business, built on Open Technology with Developer Tools and supports solutions by Industry. We run the services and workloads from Watson, Blockchain, Services, Security, and IoT.
Ready to help drive IBM's success in the Cloud market? This is your chance to research and learn new Cloud related technology products and services, as well as to design and implement quick Cloud based prototypes while advancing your career in leading edge technology.
Your role and responsibilities
Your role and responsibilities
As an IBM Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), your role will focus on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of IBM Cloud services. You'll collaborate with development teams to improve system performance, implement automation, and manage incidents effectively.
Key Responsibilities
Incident Management & Troubleshooting
- Respond to alerts, incidents, and outages with a focus on minimizing downtime and restoring services efficiently.
- Conduct thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for critical issues and implement long-term solutions to prevent recurrence..
- Design, implement, and manage monitoring solutions to gain insights into system health and performance.
- Create and maintain intuitive dashboards that provide real-time visibility into critical metrics.
- Set up proactive alerting mechanisms to detect and resolve issues before they impact end users.
- Develop robust automation scripts using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to simplify infrastructure management.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve system reliability and reduce manual effort.
- Develop comprehensive runbooks for effective incident response, troubleshooting, and system recovery.
- Maintain detailed documentation for infrastructure, processes, and best practices to support team knowledge sharing.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required Skills and Experience
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and operations.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps engineering or SRE practices.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration and cluster management.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments with expertise in shell scripting and understanding of Linux internals.
• Experience in writing code using Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Practical knowledge of Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Solid experience with source control systems and feature branching strategies.
• Expertise in logging and monitoring tools to ensure system observability and performance.
Required Education
• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering/information technology
Required Experience
• 1-2+ years
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.
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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