Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Are you interested in developing, delivering and operating an industry-leading cloud-based data replication product that is essential for the key financial players worldwide?
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Are you passionate about bringing in your expertise and developing your career as part of an international team that truly lives an innovative and agile development culture?
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Step in and be part of Germany's IBM Research & Development Lab community, with its outstanding reputation for innovation, patents and its inclusive team spirit. Share the responsibility for one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.
We are looking for cloud engineers who are highly motivated about developing innovative, hybrid cloud solutions that paves the way for our large-enterprise customers on their journey to the Cloud. You will have the opportunity to develop, operate and drive a technology that seamlessly integrates Mainframe IBM Z data in Cloud applications in a most efficient and performant way.
Cloud Engineers in our team work inside a highly agile, global development environment and are responsible for the full life cycle of our Cloud-based product offering - ranging from the design and implementation of new features and automations of the delivery process to testing for industry-leading quality assurance, continuous deployments and best-of-breed operation and support of our global enterprise customers.
You should be thrilled by emerging technologies, such as Cloud and Artificial Intelligence, to open our Cloud Offering for future hybrid Mainframe- and Cloud-based data analytics markets.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Deep knowledge in cloud architectures, cloud concepts, and cloud operations
Hands-on experience with Linux and containerization technologies, such as Docker or Podman
Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools, preferably Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform or Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with IBM Cloud®, AWS, Azure or Private Cloud deployments
Profound knowledge of networking and storage technologies as well as security concepts in Cloud environments
Fluency in at least one object-oriented and scripting programming language
Practical experience in agile software development in distributed teams
Broad and proven know-how in database architecture and technology
Strong communication skills
Proven innovation mindset
Embrace the challenge of change and constant learning
Recent PhD, Master, or Bachelor degree in Software Engineering
German: fluent
English: fluent
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experiences in CI/CD pipeline automations and Dev/Ops practices
Experiences with software performance measurements and tuning
Experience in data replication technologies, like Apache Kafka, and open data formats, such as Apache Iceberg
Experiences in web-based front-end development with HTML, JS, React
Contributions to Open-Source projects on GitHub are a plus