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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s 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 Senior Backend /Lead Development Engineer you will be involved in developing automation solutions to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization. Being developer you will be leveraging capabilities of Terrafrom and Cloud offering to drive infrastructure as code capabilities for the IBM z/OS platform.  You will Work closely with frontend engineers as part of a full-stack team, collaborate with Product, Design, and other cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality solutions. Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits. Focus on growing capabilities to support an enhancing the experience of the offering.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

* 15+ years of Software development experience with zOS or zOS Sub-systems.
* System programmer able to work and support development/testing of IBM Z HW I/O definitions - IODF and IOCDS generation and deployment.
* Familiar with HMC and HCD. 
* 8+  years Professional experience developing with Golang, Python and Ruby 
* 10+ year of hands-on experience with z/OS system programming or administration experience
* Experience with Terraform key features like Infrastructure as a code, change automation, auto scaling. 
* Experience working with  cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
* Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment
* Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools to implement robust observability practices that prioritize metrics, logging and tracing for high reliability and performance.
* Extensive experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
* Strong interest in customer-focused work, with experience collaborating with Design and Product Management functions to deliver impactful solutions.
* Demonstrated ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver innovative solutions.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on customer satisfaction and team success.
* Strong analytical, debugging and problem solving skills to analyze issues and defects reported by customer-facing and test teams.
* Proficient in source control management tools (GitHub, ) and with Agile Life Cycle Management tools.
* Soft Skills: Strong communication, collaboration, self-organization, self-study, and the ability to accept and respond constructively to critical feedback.

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.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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