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 services.

IBM Cloud Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading- edge, highly available, secure, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud.

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join us. You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven engineering team responsible for researching, designing , architecting and implementing highly tested, robust, reliable
IBM cloud infrastructure.

• Researching, designing, architecting and developing highly secure, compliant, available common base automation solutions/tooling, using technologies like Terraform, Python, GoLang, NodeJs, Bash in an IBM Cloud context (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, DevOps pipeline, Akamai etc).
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers into implementing solutions
• Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows.
• Documenting and sharing your experience with other teams.
• Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Services ecosystem.
• Manage the full lifecycle of code changes from development to deployment, including code reviews, testing and operations.
• Use of various open-source tools for instrumenting, monitoring, alerting, and debugging of production services.
• Participate in on-call rotations along with the other members of the team to maintain the uptime of our services out of hours.
• Participate in architectural discussions and help drive the future of our services as we continually strive to provide best-in-class experiences for IBM development teams.
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies and methodologies with high focus on Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio, Akamai etc)
• Provide exceptional end-user support, collaborating with development teams to understand their needs and optimize their build processes.

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Cloud environment in the role of DevOps
• Familiarity with continuous integration & continuous deployment tools and strategies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Demonstrated experience working with Cloud infrastructure (VPC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Istio,
• Akamai).
• Proficient in any one of the high-level programming language such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or Go.
• Demonstrated experience of leading a squad for atleast 2+ years.
• Design, build, and maintain highly efficient, secure and scalable software build systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and data structures/algorithms fundamentals.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated skills with troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining and improving existing software.
• Experience working with any version control system (Git preferred).

• Knowledge of IBM Cloud services and management, with an emphasis on deploying and scaling applications in a cloud environment
• Experience using cloud-native systems for monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
• Solid foundation in Linux internals, including system calls, file systems, and kernel debugging
• Understanding of endpoint security best practices (TLS, HTTPS, TLS Certificates, WAF, Network Traffic Analysis)
• Understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Knowledge of security testing techniques to identify vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure.
• Genuine interest in building efficient and highly performant software
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to changing technical environments