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Introduction

The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe is looking for a talented, innovative and enthusiastic Software engineering professional that will build the next generation IAAS to make our customers succeed. The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe has a global cloud presence that continues to grow and expand its reach. Our Network Services engineering team is responsible for delivering virtual network services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality.

An IBM Cloud Network SRE Engineer will be the key individual responsible for troubleshotting customer issues, build tools to improve reliability and work with senior engineers/architects across teams, cross teams to come up with RCA for issues, interface with customers to understand the usecases and build necessary tools to achieve this.

We are a global team, so communication skills (both verbal and written) are critical as well as flexibility to work with team members in other time zones.

 

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 primary responsibilities include:

•24x7 Observability: Be part of a worldwide team that monitors the health of production systems and services around the clock, ensuring continuous reliability and optimal customer experience.

•Cross-Functional Troubleshooting: Collaborate with engineering teams to provide initial assessments and possible workarounds for production issues. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues effectively.

•Deployment and Configuration: Leverage Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools to deploy services and configuration changes at enterprise scale.

•Security and Compliance Implementation: Implementing security measures that meet or exceed industry standards for regulations such as GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, and FBA.

•Maintenance and Support: Tasks related to applying Couchbase security patches and upgrades, supporting Cassandra and Mongo for pager duty rotation, and collaborating with Couchbase Product support for issue resolution.

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

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Relevant experience of 8-12 years in development/automation.
• Strong programming/scripting experience in Shell, Perl, Golang, or Python
• Strong experience working on cloud networking area, with understanding of troubleshooting latency issues, packet drops and other network related issues.
• Ability to scale and learn new areas.

Preferred technical and professional experience

•Cloud Networking: Hands on experience debugging/troubleshooting Networking issues and good experience on L3/L2 Protocols

•Kubernetes/OpenShift: Strongly preferred experience in working with production Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

•Automation/Scripting: In depth experience with the Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, IBM Continuous Delivery, ArgoCD

•Monitoring/Observability: Hands on experience crafting alerts and dashboards using tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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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