Associate DevOps Engineer (Graduate Programme)

Introduction
IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Work along with the Project teams to onboard new squads in the DevOps environment.
• Guiding the continuous integration continuous deployment and continuous testing.
• Work closely with the development team and operation team to create DevOps strategy and toolset that suits the individual squads.
• Setup deploy and maintain scalable high availability systems
• Perform and automate deployment and security hardening of systems
• Automate and build up scalable systems/environment using latest technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Automate security hardening in testing deployment and production setup based on industrial best practices
• Setup and maintain CI/CD automated testing development and delivery environments
• Writing scripts/programs for service monitoring and health check of systems
• Day-to-day monitoring backup deployment and maintenance of systems

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent with 0 to 2 years of relevant experience
• Experience with cloud orchestration configuration management and auto-scaling techniques
• Thorough knowledge of networking routers switches and WiFi setup.
• Good knowledge of storage technologies such as NAS SAN SDS
• Experience with automation tools such as Salt/Chef/Puppet/Ansible
• Experience with load balancing setup for TCP/IP HTTP DNS routings.
• Knowledge of IT security standards for instance from CIS or IM8.
• Experience on building and developing CI/CD pipeline and workflow (Gitlab CI/CD preferred)
• Good hands-on experience on using AWS Cloud Formation scripts for configuration management and application deployment
• Overall knowledge on one or more of the following programming language (Java Spring Boot Node JS Angular JS React Native)
• Knowledge on continuous integration test automation version control and software configuration management.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Due to the government client-facing nature of this role it is a requirement for all applicants to hold Singaporean Citizenship.