Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
In the role of Storage protocol developer, you would be responsible for Designing, development and support of individual product features for IBM family of storage products, IBM Software Defined Storage portfolio & IBM cloud storage services.
You will be owning and driving product functionality as SME and represent in global product teams. You will work with the senior technical leaders and manager in effectively managing the deliverables through your technical skills and prior experience.

• Strong development experience with Samba. Experience with protocols in enterprise-grade NAS / SDS solutions is an added advantage.
• 8 - 12 years of industry experience in Virtualization/containerization, Filesystems, Storage systems Software.
• Strong experience of software product development, debug and test using C, C++, Go language. Knowing Python, scripting languages is an added advantage.
• Good debugging skills for complex issues with interdependencies across multiple modules.
• Product development experience on Linux/Windows operating systems and user level programming and test. Basic User level Linux and administration is desired.
• Ability to take ownership of feature development and meticulously evaluate product requirements, identify dependencies, execute development tasks and testing. Ability to crisply communicate with QA and other teams to define test requirements and support integration.
• Experience in Systems/Storage domains, Storage controllers and features like High availability, DR, Replication, Snapshot technologies.
• Ability to crisply communicate across geographies and all stake holders (clients and level 3 support teams) for resolving field issues. Good expertise of working with Global teams
• Knowledge and hand-on usage of code and defect management tools.
• Good written/verbal communication skills to report status crisply and accurately.
• Experience working in a collaborative environment that uses Agile methodologies

• Basic understanding of Container technologies (OpenShift Platform), Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators etc.
• Understanding on working model of Hybrid cloud environment (AWS/Azure/other cloud environment) is an added advantage.