DevOps 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
Data is the new currency. In an ever increasingly connected world where the amount of data generated every day is exploding in the wrong hands this data can be used for malicious intent. As more systems are being built on the cloud businesses are struggling to protect and monitor their data environment. The IBM Security DevOps team works to deliver leading edge products and solutions to help organizations analyze their data environment to make sound decisions to ensure regulatory compliance and improve their data security. The research and development in this area is critical to IBM and represents a huge opportunity for growth in terms of revenue uplift and technology advancement.

As a DevOps Engineer you are part of a highly focused self-managed Agile team who designs develops & maintains a Continuous Build Integration Test and Monitoring pipeline to support the delivery of IBM Security solutions. As our teams operate in a highly dynamic squad-based environment you will have the opportunity to work close-knit squad that cultivates creativity and challenges the status quo and pushes limits on finding new and inventive ways to work.

This position offers great career growth opportunities using emerging technologies including Cloud Analytics and Machine Learning as part of a highly available DevOps implementation to help drive quality speed and efficiency. You are also part of a team who constantly seeks to add value for our stakeholders enhances the scalability of our infrastructure and manages the disaster recovery and capacity of our delivery pipeline.

The ideal candidate should have a strong passion for solving problems developing highly efficient automation and digital deployment pipelines experimenting with new technologies and development of their own hobby applications.

They should also have a keen interest in researching the latest data security trends and regulations and a broad understanding of cybersecurity attacks.

In addition the ideal candidate must also have a relentless desire for continuous improvement through the learning of new things be a champion of new ideas continually explore new perspectives and embrace going beyond their comfort zone even at the risk of failure or embarrassment.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

* 4+ Years of proven development experience including deploying and maintaining global multi-tiered infrastructure and web applications
* Very strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environment and scripting languages: Shell scripting & experience in working with Artifact Management systems like JFrog Artifactory or others
* Strong expertise in writing Ansible Plugins Python programs Groovy scripts Bash scripting Terraformetc for automated solutions.
* Design Lead drive and implement highly scalable and complex DevSecOps solutions for our clients
* Hands on experience in developing Container orchestration engines such as Kubernetes Operators Helm Charts etc
* Have demonstrated experience and expertise in set of foundational development tools & creation of complex pipelines using Github Jenkins Travis etc
* Experience on creating and using REST APIs of Jenkins to create pipelines on hybrid environments & creating and maintaining the Kubernetes environments.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure scalable and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments i.e. execute initiatives to reduce failure troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack expand monitoring capabilities and manage technical operations.