MQSaaS Cloud DevSecOps engineer

Introduction

We are seeking a skilled Cloud DevSecOps engineer to join our IBM MQ Software as a Service team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for building, testing, maintaining and securing a SaaS service on a variety of hyperscalers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in secure DevOps practices, cloud technologies, container orchestration, continuous integration, and deployment. You will be responsible for managing Security, Compliance and Operational activities, identifying opportunities to enhance security and compliance practices within our operating procedures, solution design and delivery, maintaining and enhancing security and compliance aspects of our continuous integration and deployment pipelines, and ensuring the smooth and secure operation of our services.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Successful candidates will have strong coding skills, an understanding of fundamental Security and Privacy principles and a desire to build eminence within the Security and Compliance community. Candidates should also be comfortable working as part of a global team and possess good verbal & written communication skills.

A Successful Individual For This Role Should Possess

• Good knowledge of cloud technologies including networking and security
• A strong technical background in using development tools such as Git, VS Code, make etc.
• Strong analytical and problem solving expertise, with the ability to investigate issues and apply fixes throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience in applying Cloud Engineering practices to enable Continuous Delivery.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks, proactively driving them to their completion.
• Automation skills in testing, scripting (e.g. Bash), pipelines, and utilities.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting.
• An understanding of fundamental Security and Privacy principles.
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 4 + years of technical expertise in building, deploying and running applications in a Cloud environment such as AWS.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container orchestration .
• Familiarity with Docker, Istio, and other container technologies.
• Development skills in Golang to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• Management of version control and collaboration using Git and GitHub.
• Strong scripting experience, e.g. bash.
• Experience in utilising Helm charts for packaging and deploying containerised applications.
• Ability to implement and maintain GitOps workflows using FluxCD/ArgoCD.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Knowledge of Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.
• Experience in applying secure development practices.