Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data&AI

Introduction
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always open for those who want to grow their career.
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challenges into solutions.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will build the next generation of software automation and tooling to ensure the reliability and resiliency of our systems. Bringing a unique blend of development experience and skills in both software and systems you will play a key role in analyzing business needs identifying and solving problems advising and designing solutions building and testing deploying and managing changes and maintaining well-engineered information systems and ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities:
• Identify and investigate issues using troubleshooting techniques in order to provide advice and guidance to clients
• Work in a global team located in US Canada Ireland China India and Australia collaborating with IBMers to share recommendations solutions and ideas
• Look for enhancements and innovative solutions to help the services scale and improve existing technical support tools procedures or processes.
• Develop and enhance your technical knowledge via projects and assignments as well as through IBM’s world class learning platform

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
– 5+ years of experience in a software engineering and software delivery role
– 5+ years of experience in Cloud/DevOps engineering and/or Linux administration
– Experience with at least one major public cloud provider or large scale private/hybrid cloud using container orchestration
– Experience with a modern configuration management framework (Ansible Chef Puppet)
– Production experience with one or more monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Zabbix etc.)
– Experience with log aggregation tools (Elastic Loki Mezmo etc.)
– Strong scripting skills in at least one language (BASH Python Ruby etc.)
– Experience with source control management (git subversion etc.)
– Experience in software development life cycle and delivery process
– Ability to manage multiple projects while ensuring that commitments and timetables are met
– Ability to partner with internal and external stakeholders to design operational solutions
– Goal oriented forward thinker that can provide solutions for complex technical problems
– Demonstrated skills in communication analysis problem solving and short term and long-term planning

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
– Production Kubernetes/OpenShift experience strongly preferred
– Experience with pipeline tools for deploying and managing applications
– Experience with Prometheus Grafana Loki
– Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
– Comfortable developing with and analyzing issues in databases (relational and nosql)