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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.  IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. 

Your role and responsibilities

As a Security Architect you will apply your knowledge of Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) and the Cloud Cybersecurity Controls (CCC) in support of hosting and operating our software platforms in designated regions, making them both secure and compliant with the local requirements.  Your primary responsibilities include:  AWS Distributed Systems: Develop and maintain scalable distributed systems in AWS.  Kubernetes Cluster Management: Develop and maintain high-performance Kubernetes (k8s) clusters across multiple regions.  Telemetry Infrastructure: Develop and maintain telemetry infrastructure and service instrumentation (Python) for metrics, distributed tracing, and logging.  Petabyte-Scale Data Platform: Support infrastructure for a petabyte-scale data platform and stream analysis services.  Collaboration with Audio and Speech AI Engineers: Work with AI Engineers to accelerate development and deployment of heterogeneous analysis and distributed training pipelines.  SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budget Management: Participate in the definition and management of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for infrastructure and production services.  Infrastructure-as-Code Pipelines: Design and implement infrastructure-as-code pipelines. 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise


  • With 8+ years of experience, provide security guidance for archive, backup/recovery, and Business Continuity Processes (Disaster recovery) in distributed operations
  • Ensure security requirements are addressed in architectural designs
  • Establish effective Cloud native security strategy, define pragmatic approaches, and develop technical roadmaps for addressing issues and future implementations.
Preferred technical and professional experience


  • Expert knowledge with containers such as Docker and container orchestration, Kubernetes is required
  • Strong skills in AWS security, Azure security services across compute, storage, network, identify management & security.
  • Hands-on technical expertise in Security Architecture, automation, integration, and deployment (DevSecOps)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

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. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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