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Site Reliability and Automation Engineer

AT IBM
IBM

Site Reliability and Automation Engineer

Dublin, Ireland

Introduction
Are you passionate about technology? Do you love building new things? Do you want to develop the future of IBM's Cloud offerings? If you answered YES, then we have the right opportunity for you!
The shift toward the consumption of IT as a service, i.e., the cloud, is one of the most important changes to happen to our industry in decades. At IBM, we are driven to shift our technology to an as-a-service model and to help our clients transform themselves to take full advantage of the cloud. With industry leadership in analytics, security, commerce, and cognitive computing and with unmatched hardware and software design and industrial research capabilities, no other company is as well positioned to address the full opportunity of cloud computing.

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Your Role and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work directly with his team and various teams within IBM Hybrid Cloud to ensure the stability and availability of the Cloud Object Storage offering. The position requires a bachelor's degree and 1-3 years of experience in the field or in a related area. The candidate has to be familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and procedures related to Cloud technologies. They also rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Able and willing to perform a variety of tasks to ensure the success of the project. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Job Responsibilities Include:
• Debugging problems in production and test environments
• Observability, system and service performance analysis and tuning
• Developing automation that improves deployment speed and service reliability
• Continuous delivery using tools such as Travis, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes
Use internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
Ensure their assigned projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
Report and escalate to management as needed
Manage the relationship with the client teams and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
Meet with peer teams to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
Use and continually develop leadership skills
Attend conferences and training as required to maintain proficiency
Perform other related duties as assigned
Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
A rigorous approach to problem-solving
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep dive
• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, VMware, Azure, and/or IBM Cloud
• Programming skills - scripting, Go, Python, Java, or similar
• Must be proficient in writing, debugging, and maintaining automation, scripts and code (ie, Bash, Ansible, and Python, Java or Golang)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• 4+ years of experience with some or all of GitHub, Perl, Go, Java and Python

Client-provided location(s): Coolmine, Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Job ID: IBM-21050017
Employment Type: Full Time

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