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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 Engineer, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems for the IBM client business. In this role, you will lead the problem resolution process for our clients, from analysis and troubleshooting, to deploying the latest software updates & fixes.

Your role and responsibilities

The Site Reliability Team (SRE) ensures the service is highly available and fully optimizead in a 24/7 environment. As a SRE you will play a crutial role in ensuring the reliability and resiliency of our systems. If you are passionate about optimizing, building automation, solving problems, testing, deploying and managing highly-scalable environments - this is the perfect opportunity for you.
In this role, you will be part of a global SRE team who works closely with our development and product teams to increase the quality and reliability for our products and services but also deploy and manage of Kubernetes clusters on IBM Cloud and other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). As a SRE you must be willing to work in a fast paced Cloud environment, share rotational on-call duty coverage with the global Ops team and support the back-end Cloud infrastructure components.

Key Responsibilities:
- Maitain high-available product and service on cloud
- Identify issues, ensure minimal downtime and drive them towards a resolution
- Monitor health and performance of production systems
- Automate repetitive tasks using scripts and tools, reduce manual interventions
- Collaborate with development teams - roll out new services, ensure stability and reliability
- Improve operational practices, ensure efficenty and innovation
- Share knowlegde, ideas and solutions with global team

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

- Experience with Linux system administration
- Understanding of containerization technologies
- Experience with maintaining Kubernetes-based applications on cloud infrastructure
- General scripting and automation skills in at least one language (Bash, Python, Go, Jenkins, Ansible)
- Familiarity with the usage of one or more Cloud Platforms (IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Passion for building and maitaning reliable and resiliant systems
- Basic understanding of networking

Preferred technical and professional experience

-Understanding of cloud storage and networking
-Experience with Infrastructure as Code
-Experience with any source version control system
-Experience with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Sysdig etc.)

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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