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 and OpenShift environments, the platform is rapidly growing, it is the fastest growing area in IBM Cloud right now. 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.
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, BNPP, 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, Australia.
We are looking for experienced developers who understand containers, have worked with Kubernetes and not afraid of learning about the latest technologies 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. 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 teams 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.
- Cloud computing
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Networking
- Software development (Golang or Node.js)
- CI/CD
- Familiarity with hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure concepts
- Extensive knowledge with CI/CD tools (Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux)
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack
- Experience with IaC tools (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible)