Software Developer

Introduction

Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.

Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role.

IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on back-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities.

In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security..

As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.

Your Role And Responsibilities

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure and enterprise automated intelligence that only IBM can provide.

As a Critical Member Of The Team Tasked With Delivering On Above Promise, Your Day-to-day Activities Will Include But May Not Be Limited To The Following

• Developing knowledge of major cloud and as-a-service technologies, and additional knowledge or experience in the areas of IT and/or cloud technology architecture (service management and/or resiliency is a plus)
• Implementing modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code and actively participating in code and design reviews
• Identifying and addressing design, development and delivery performance bottlenecks
• Leveraging monitoring tools to gain insight into performance or potential failure points and taking corrective action
• Coordinating with support and development teams with which IBM Infrastructure Platform interacts to follow up on dependencies and issues and resolving them
• Defining, implementing and executing unit tests (including automation)
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant experience
• 2+ years experience and expertise in programming atleast in one language Python/Go/Node.js
• 1+ years experience in developing and deploying applications on Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker
• 2+ years familiarity with working in a CICD environment
• 2+ years experience with developing and operating highly available, distributed applications in production environments on Kubernetes
• Experience with building automated tests, handling customer escalations,
• 1+ years experience with managing service dependencies via Terraform or Ansible
• At least 2 years of experience coding and troubleshooting applications written in Go, Python, Node.js, Express.js.
• 1+ years experience in operating with secure principles
• At least 3 years of experience with micro-service development
• At least 1 years' experience with no-sql database systems such as MongoDB
• At least 1 years' experience with operating, configuring, and developing with caching systems like redis
• Proven understanding of REST principles and architecture
• Familiarity with working with Cloud services (IBM Cloud, GCP, AWS, Azure)
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Advanced Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with development on PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elastic, MySQL, Redis, or MongoDB
• 2 years experience with managing Linux machines using Configuration management (eg, Chef, Puppet, Ansible). Debian experience is preferred
• 2+ years experience with ability to automate using scripting languages like Python, Shell
• Experience with troubleshooting, using and configuring Linux systems
• 2+ years experience with infrastructure automation
• 2+ years experience with using monitoring tooling like Grafana, Prometheus