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Senior Software Developer

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IBM

Senior Software Developer

Dublin, Ireland

Introduction

We are seeking a skilled Senior Cloud developer to join our IBM MQ Software as a Service development team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for building, testing and maintaining a SaaS service on a variety of hyperscalers. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud technologies such as container orchestration, continuous integration, and deployment. You will be responsible for delivering new features into the service, maintaining and enhancing our continuous integration and deployment pipelines, and ensuring the smooth operation of our services. The role requires a good level of personal organisation and the ability to work well within a distributed global team in a fast paced and exciting environment.

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The MQ SaaS team employs agile development practices with all team members actively engaged in the planning, development, testing and usability related tasks owned and delivered by their 'Delivery Team'. Preferred candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated team players who have cloud software skills/experience and demonstrate a genuine desire and aptitude to perform the multi-disciplinary activities inherent in a DevOps role. Knowledge of continuous delivery techniques is important to ensure the stability of a live service. Successful candidate will be proficient in Agile Delivery practices and passionate about delivering on team objectives and sprint goals. The work performed will have a high degree of technical content, is diverse and challenging yet always rewarding. If you love technology, a technical challenge, being part of a successful team and want to make a difference to how global business meets the demands of moving data around the world quickly, securely and reliably then MQ SaaS is for you.

Your role and responsibilities

Successful candidates will have strong coding skills and a desire to learn full stack development, including but not limited to Feature Development, Testing and Customer Support. Candidates should also be comfortable working as part of a global team and possess good verbal & written communication skills.

A successful individual for this role should possess:

  • A strong understanding of cloud technologies, including networking and security
  • A strong technical background in using development tools such as Git, VS Code, make etc.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving expertise, with the ability to investigate issues and apply fixes throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Experience in applying Cloud Engineering practices to enable Continuous Delivery.
  • Ability to take ownership of tasks, proactively driving them to their completion.
  • Automation skills in testing, scripting (e.g. Bash), pipelines, and utilities.
  • Experience in monitoring and alerting.

**Please note - This position requires working onsite a minimum of 3 days per week at our Dublin location

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Technical expertise in building, deploying and running applications in a Cloud environment such as AWS, IBMCloud, Azure .
  • Strong proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container orchestration.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Istio, and other container technologies.
  • Management of version control and collaboration using Git and GitHub.
  • Strong scripting experience, e.g. bash .
  • Ability to implement and maintain GitOps workflows using FluxCD/ArgoCD.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • 5+ years experience in cloud engineering.
  • Proficient in agile development methodologies and tools.
  • Development skills in Golang/Python to deliver robust, scalable solutions.
  • Experience in utilizing Helm charts for packaging and deploying containerized applications.
  • Knowledge of terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.
  • Experience leading teams in an agile environment.
  • Experience in owning and driving business outcomes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Mulhuddart, Dublin, Ireland
Job ID: IBM-20761
Employment Type: Other

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