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Introduction
Introduction

IBM Cloudant NoSQL DB is a globally distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) designed for developers of large and fast-growing applications. Hundreds of organisations around the world rely on Cloudant to keep their data online 24/7. This includes IBM Cloud itself, where Cloudant underpins many critical Cloud components. We help customers achieve their goals by providing a rock-solid, high availability database that can scale with their needs and replicate their data to many global locations to keep their applications performant and robust to failure.

Learn more about IBM Cloudant at https://www.ibm.com/products/cloudant.

Your role and responsibilities

Cloudant is looking for a talented Infrastructure Engineer to help manage, evolve and operate our global service infrastructure. The infrastructure team’s role is to keep our bare metal and Kubernetes infrastructure secure, healthy and performant. We play a key role across the product by providing a solid foundation to deliver Cloudant’s serverless database as a service.



As an engineer in the infrastructure team, you’ll be able to develop a deep expertise in the technologies that keep a large-scale cloud database online and available. You’ll help build automation to reduce the manual effort in managing our machines, contribute to the day-to-day maintenance of the systems, and ensure our infrastructure provides the right support for Cloudant’s key customer features and security standards. We prioritise engineer growth and have a lot of in-house experience to learn from.

 

We code primarily in Python and Ruby. Our infrastructure is a mixture of bare metal machines running Debian and Kubernetes, running on IBM’s Cloud. This is managed using Chef and Terraform, along with a lot of homegrown automation to tie it all together.

 

Over time, you will become a subject matter expert in our infrastructure and help out debugging and fixing service issues. This role involves on-call responsibilities.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

·      Some experience with managing Linux machines using SSH or configuration management / Infrastructure as Code tooling (eg

·      Skills writing code in a modern backend language (eg, Python, Go, Ruby).

·      A focus on creating reliable code using techniques like unit testing and staged rollout.

·      Comfortable working using pull requests and continuous integration.

·      Experience with observability tooling (eg, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana).

·      Strong written skills in English and an ability to work in a distributed team.

Preferred technical and professional experience

·      Experience maintaining systems within a compliance environment (eg, financial services, tools such as Auditree).

·      Previous experience as an SRE for a large-scale service, especially maintaining database and observability systems.

·      Significant experience with Linux, including networking and storage debugging.

·      Comfortable working with open-source tools, contributing fixes where needed.

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.

 

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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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