Senior Software Developer

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design code test and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today – planes and trains take off on time bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM you will use the best in class software development tools techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer in the IBM Cloud you will design and build a service that allows customers to create cloud storage solutions that are secure reliable completely elastic and are scalable to support IBM’s enterprise customers. Delivering a reliable completely elastic and are scalable to support IBM’s enterprise customers. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at IBM requires engineers with extraordinary technical expertise and boundless creativity. At IBM engineers will interact customers to understand out business goals and to innovate rapidly delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality. The successful candidate will work directly with his team and various teams within IBM Hybrid Cloud to ensure the stability and availability of the Cloud Object Storage offering. IBM is seeking creative and responsible talent who can work well with others and are able to build a service that is enterprise-class. If you want the opportunity to grow your technical and professional skills while helping customers succeed IBM is the place for you. IF you are exciting for the opportunity to dig into challenging operational issues and to help costumers build the next generation of web applications the IBM Cloud is a great fit.

Responsibilities Include:

• Design and development of new features
• Minimizing and hardening microservices and public-facing API gateway attack surface
• Continuous delivery using tools such as Tekton Travis Jenkins Ansible and Kubernetes
• Observability capacity planning system and service performance analysis and tuning
• Orchestrating cloud services using tools such as Terraform Ansible and Tekton
• Debugging problems in production and test environments
• Developing automation that improves deployment speed and service reliability in the containerized environment.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
As a software developer you will be a self-starter requiring limited supervision or guidance with good communication skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize your work.

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in enterprise class software development experience
• Strong foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms
• A rigorous approach to problem-solving
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep dive
• Experience with production SAAS cloud hosted environments
• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS VMware Azure and/or IBM Cloud
• Programming skills – scripting Go Python C/C++ Java or similar
• Must be proficient in writing debugging and maintaining automation scripts and code (ie Bash Ansible and Python Java or Golang)
• Ability to administrate configure optimize and monitor services and/or servers at scale.
• Use of modern container systems such as Docker Vagrant Rancher AWS Kubernetes OpenShift
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible Chef Puppet

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• None