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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 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Program Director, you will play a pivotal role in leading and driving the SRE program within our organization. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems and applications which support IBM Software SaaS offerings. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a proven track record of implementing and optimizing SRE best practices in SaaS environments.

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

-        Lead the SRE program strategy and execution across multiple SaaS offerings

-        Drive reliability engineering practices to ensure high availability and performance of services

-        Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed SRE principles into the software development lifecycle

-        Oversee incident management processes, including root cause analysis and continuous improvement

-        Champion automation, observability, and proactive monitoring across systems

-        Guide the adoption of container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code practices

-        Mentor and grow a high-performing, globally distributed SRE team

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

-        Proven experience in a leadership role within Site Reliability Engineering, with a focus on supporting SaaS and/or PaaS solutions

-        Proficient understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code

-        In-depth knowledge of system architecture, networking, and security principles

-        Strong experience with incident management, post-incident analysis, and root cause analysis in a multi-tenant SaaS context

-        Expertise in implementing and managing container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) for multi-tenant environments

Preferred technical and professional experience

-        Certification in Site Reliability Engineering or related field

-        Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

-        Demonstrated success in leading SRE transformations within organizations, particularly in the context of SaaS platforms

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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