At IBM Software we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn grow and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies partners and industries to design develop and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation growth and continuous learning IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
What you will do:
- Ensure platform reliability and performance: Monitor troubleshoot and optimize production systems running on Kubernetes (EKS GKE AKS).
- Automate operations: Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning scaling and incident response.
- Incident response & on-call support: Participate in on-call rotations to quickly detect mitigate and resolve production incidents.
- Kubernetes upgrades & management: Own and drive Kubernetes version upgrades node pool scaling and security patches.
- Observability & monitoring: Implement and refine observability tools (Datadog Prometheus Splunk etc.) for proactive monitoring and alerting.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure using Terraform Terragrunt Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with developers DBPEs (Database Production Engineers) SREs and other teams to improve platform stability.
- Performance tuning: Analyze and optimize cloud and containerized workloads for cost efficiency and high availability.
- Security & compliance: Ensure platform security best practices incident response and compliance adherence..
Your experience should include:
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS GKE AKS) and container orchestration.
- Experience with AWS GCP or Azure particularly in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Terraform Helm and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Strong understanding of Linux systems networking and security best practices.
- Experience with monitoring & logging tools (Datadog Splunk Prometheus Grafana ELK etc.).
- Hands-on experience with automation & scripting (Python Bash or Go).
- Experience in incident management & debugging complex distributed systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.