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Introduction

IBM Cloud is created as a solution for Customers, who continuously seek moving their workloads onto a managed IT infrastructure. 
 
Over the years, our managed Kubernetes Service has become the reliable foundation of this ambitious endeavor, available internally and externally. See more at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-getting-started 

Our team is working together with RedHat on the seamless integration of Red Hat products into our managed services on IBM Cloud in many areas, like OpenShift or Red Hat AI.  
 
As we are large consumers of open technologies, we regularly contribute back to the relevant open-source projects in the containerization space. 

Kubernetes Platform Engineers, as Software Developers, are the backbone of our initiative to design, code, test, and own the software that lets workloads run on Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. 
 
This is now an opportunity to join our team. 
 
We are looking for great individuals who want to be part of something important, building a platform our Customers love to use.  
 
We have team members from all around the world, from the United States (Raleigh/NC, Austin/TX, Rochester/MN), United Kingdom (Hursley), Ireland (Dublin), Germany (Boeblingen), India (Bangalore), to Australia (Sydney). 
 
We have customers spanning across the globe, from the Unites States, through Europe, Middle-East and Asia, reaching as far as Japan.

Your role and responsibilities
  • You will be working in an open organization, where we constantly seek and apply ways how to create value working in an enterprise delivering value to customers, using open-source technology.
  • You will be a key member of our IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service development team.
  • You will join a team that develops the business logic and owns all technical challenges, starting from creation on IaaS (VPC) using opensource k8s or Openshift, then the orchestration engine, and make it manageable via RESTful APIs, including the lifecycle management of our back-end services – all that add up Kubernetes platform as a service.
  • You will be expected to collaborate with cross-functional DevOps and SRE teams to improve platform reliability and performance, assist with troubleshooting, and contribute to platform documentation and best practices.
  • The role includes breaking down tasks, coding software, testing, and supporting the own-developed service in production.
  • Coding is in Go programming language, we very much welcome specialized skills with Ansible and Terraform. 
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Coding skills/software engineering background is a must have
  • You need to be ready that daily work will be creating functionality that is written in Golang, as our developed service is based on native Kubernetes with our proprietary add-ons, integrated 3rd party software. 
  • Python and Bash scripting to automate and integrate with CI/CD systems. 
  • BSc/MSc in Computer Sciences or equal 
  • Some understanding of Git


  • You to have an understanding and experience in Object-Oriented design principles, developed a service or product. 
Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience using Docker/Podman/Rancher to build and run applications, using Kubernetes as an orchestration system will just make Your life easier 

Experience using Ansible, or Terraform 

Experience with CI/CD frameworks including Tekton 

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