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Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for a software development and automation engineer in the hybrid cloud deployment team of IBM's watsonx Orchestrate service. Your primary responsibility will be management and automation of watsonx Orchestrate tests & performance scripts in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters. Although this position is for cloud performance engineering, your responsibilities will span the entire lifecycle of multiple microservices, from technical design, development, testing to deployment and operations. You will be part of a small agile team, but you will interact with multiple other disciplines including; Development teams and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) around the world to deliver secure and distributed microservices to various cloud environments. You will participate in release cycles of watsonx Orchestrate, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments. You will need to be an expert in working with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and change management applications. You must have a passion for examining how things work internally and excellent collaboration skills, since you will devise solutions to challenging problems in complex distributed systems with various teams. Above all, we are looking for team members with a keen sense of ownership, resilience, and drive. If you like dynamic projects and enjoy being challenged, if you can make progress when faced with complex technical problem, if you enjoy moving fast (and you are not afraid of making a mistake or two on the way), then we are the perfect team for you!

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 1+ Years of experience in Performance/Test Engineering role.
- Experience creating automated test scripts.
- General knowledge on performance monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, loki, etc.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible etc.
- Experience with Docker Orchestration and Docker Containerization using Kubernetes, RedHat Openshift etc.
- Expertise with Linux operating systems (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu etc.).
- Working knowledge of installation and deployment of automation processes.
- Programming skills using languages such as Python or Javascript.
- Working knowledge in Shell Scripting/Bash.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and k6.
- Experience with load, stress and scalability testing.
- Experience managing Linux systems in public cloud, such as IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure. - Knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure and management such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform, KVM, VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
- General knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
- Knowledge of IBM Cloud Pak systems/tools.