As IBM Cloud has been standardizing on Kubernetes and containerized software IBM Cloud
Kubernetes Service (IKS) has become the backbone of IBM Cloud. As Customers are moving more and more workload into Kubernetes environments, the platform is rapidly growing, it is the fastest growing area in IBM Cloud right now. Our team has both open source contributors to multiple projects including Kube, containerd as well as Istio, while we are open sourcing several components of our stack.
The same team also has members who are planning, building and running IKS for both IBM internal teams as well as external Customers. Just to take a few, we are running the Watson AI platform, Weather.com, Maersk, Car2go, American Airlines, etc.
The opportunity is to join this team for skilled individuals who want to be part of building a platform we are proud of and Customers love to use. We have team members from all around the world, from the United States (Raleigh, NC, Austin, TX, Rochester, MN, San Francisco, CA), United Kingdom, Germany, China, India.
We are looking for experienced developers who have worked with IP networks, proxies, understand containers and not afraid of learning Kubernetes to deliver platform for business critical applications for both IBM services as well as Customer deployments. The successful candidate will work as a Software Developer who is going to be part of IBM Cloud organization.
If you are passionate about solving hard problems and you want to be part of a team who builds the next generation of IBM Cloud, the opportunity is to work on load balancers (NLB, ALB, L4/L7 load balancers and proxies), network functions (NFV), Kubernetes internals, CNI, overlay, L4 firewalls, next generation container firewalls, anomaly detection, IDS/IPS, etc. The potential impact is very high and measured on a global scale.
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.
A passion for automation, a deep understanding of Kubernetes primitives, and experience with managing hybrid cloud environments are essential to success in this role.
We have great tools to work with, completely automated test and release pipeline, agile development environment, amazing existing team who are welcoming new members. If you want to challenge yourself, learn new things and grow this may be a good opportunity for you.
- Specifying, building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting your code.
- Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Building custom Kubernetes controllers or Operators
- Kubernetes networking (CNI, Calico, BGP)
- Kubernetes (containers, docker, containerd)
- Ingress Controllers (Kubenetes Ingress, Istio)
- Linux networking (iptables, tcpdump)
- In programming: highly preferred Golang
- VPN
- DNS
- Infrastructure skills
- Bash/Shell
- Etcd
- Letsencrypt
- Familiarity with Satellite clusters and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Razee or similar multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment frameworks.
- Razee coponents (e.g., RazeedDash, RemoteResource, FeatureFlagSetLD, WatchKeeper)
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, IBM DevOps
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack
- Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift CLI (oc), kubectl