Cloud Kubernetes Platform Developer

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
At IBM we are driven to shift our technology to an as-a-service model and to help our clients transform themselves to take full advantage of the cloud. With industry leadership in AI analytics security commerce and quantum computing and with unmatched hardware and software design and industrial research capabilities no other company is as well positioned to address the full opportunity of enterprise cloud computing. We are looking for a backend developer to join our IBM Cloud VPC Observability team. This team is part of IBM Cloud VPC Service dedicated to ensuring that the IBM Cloud is at the forefront of reliable enterprise cloud technology. We are building Observability platforms to deliver performance reliability and predictability for our customers’ most demanding workloads at global scale and with leadership efficiency resiliency and security.

In this role you will be responsible for designing implementing and managing a end to end native kubernetes platform used to host our observability platforms. The ability to take in requirements on an agile basis and be able to work autonomously with high level perspective is a must. You understand cloud native concepts and have experience with highly tunable and scalable Kubernetes based cloud deployments. You will participate in the design of the service writing tools and automation developing tests determining monitoring best practices and handling complex escalations. If you are the kind of person who is collaborative able to handle responsibility and enjoys not only sharing a vision but getting your hands dirty to be sure that the vision is made a reality in a fast-paced challenging environment then we want to talk to you!

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s in Engineering Computer Science or relevant experience
• 5+ years experience and expertise in programming atleast in one language Python/Go
• 5+ years experience in developing and deploying applications on Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker
• 5+ years familiarity with working implementing a CICD environment like argoCD Tekton Jenkins
• 5+ years experience with developing and operating highly available distributed applications in production environments on Kubernetes
• 5+ years experience on the internal workings of kubernetes including network policies controllers crd’s etc.
• 2+ years experience in pod communication protocols in kubernetes
• Experience with building automated tests handling escalations
• 3-5 years experience with managing service dependencies via Terraform or Ansible
• 5+ years of experience coding and troubleshooting applications written in Go Python
• 2+ years experience in operating with secure principles
• 2+ years experience with implementing designing service mesh like istio cilium etc.
• At least 5 years of experience with micro-service development
• At least 2 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 Expertise

• Advanced Experience with Kubernetes internal workings etc.
• 3-5 years experience with managing Linux machines using Configuration management (eg Chef Puppet Ansible). Debian experience is preferred
• 3+ 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
• 3+ years experience with using monitoring tooling like Grafana Prometheus