IBM Cloudant Release Engineer

Introduction
IBM Cloudant is a fully managed JSON document database that offers
independent serverless scaling of throughput capacity and storage
designed for web mobile IoT and serverless applications. The Release
Engineering team within Cloudant is primarily responsible for conducting
the necessary quality assurance tests on each internal software build that
is produced by the core database team the DBCore team maintains the
respective set of services test suites and other solutions provides the
DBCore team a feedback and ensures the stability and continuity of
releases. Besides that the Release Engineering team has a broder role
in supporting CI/CD accross all teams and keeping Cloudant’s services
up and running. The objective of this role is to support Cloudant’s
business objectives by participating in all release engineering activities
needed to run the related processes and tooling in order to meet
company and customer requirements maintain improve our security and
compliance posture and judge the quality of the submitted release
candidates.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Conduct testing of release candidates for software builds
• Develop new test automation features under the guidance
• Debug and fix issues with the existing services and tooling
• Run benchmarks to determine potential regressions in performance
• Respond to vulnerability assessment reports and CVE notifications
• Keep software versions up to date for the elements of the technology stack
• Implement security and compliance controls under guidance
• Partake in development of the release engineering processes and practices
• Report project status as requested by management. Participate in routine team status and planning meetings

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of relevant development experience
• Experience with CI/CD practices and implementation
• Experience in security code scanning vulnerability assessment and managing vulnerabilities
• Ability to debug and automate routine tasks
• Working knowledge of version control systems
• Capability to work in a global multicultural and diverse environment
• English language fluency both verbal and written
• Demonstratively strong communication skills both written
• (Slack/email) and video conferencing (Microsoft Teams Zoom etc)
• Ability to work in a team effectively manage workload escalate problems when needed and deliver projects on time

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of Linux systems git shell scripting Python Groovy Jenkins
• Experience with Apache CouchDB or other document databases
• Experience in various testing methodologies unit testing integration testing and performance testing
• Experience in HTTP REST API programming working with JSON
• documents
• Experience in cloud computing and working with cloud providers such as IBM Cloud Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with containerized or/and virtualized workloads
• Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive