SW Engineer - Systems Managment Development

Introduction
The IBM mainframe (Z Systems) is responsible for most credit card transactions and is used by the many of the top insurers banks retailers and airlines.
IBM z/VM® is an operating system with highly secure and scalable hypervisor and virtualization technology designed to run Linux® z/OS® z/VSE® and z/TPF virtual machines as well as Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM zSystems™ and IBM LinuxONE servers. z/VM provides a highly secure and scalable environment for efficiently running critical Linux applications with support for more Linux virtual servers than any other platform in a single footprint.
The z/VM team is a worldwide team primarily located in Poughkeepsie NY with expansion plans in Bangalore India. All phases of the software life cycle are performed within this team including the design development test performance as well as supporting the product in the field with customers. Agile methodologies are used throughout the life cycle.
We are looking for qualified software engineer candidates to be part of our IBM Z Systems team to help us take z/VM virtualization to the next level on the mainframe.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Work with Product Owner/Lead in understanding customer/project requirements create/implement the design and developing unit test scenarios to validate the solution/fixes.
• Analyse the issues defect reports by test team using traces debugging traces and develop fixes or enhancements.
• Experience dealing with customers problems developing resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
• Troubleshoot VM managemen interconnectivity platforms performance and configurations issues in the layers.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding implementation/deployments recurring issues new standard operating procedures knowledge transfer material etc.
• Participate in continuous and iterative software development cycles with emphasis on code quality supportability scalability and performance
• Document technical issues and solutions

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Technical and Professional Expertise with relevant experience of 9- 11 years in devoping SW for Linux/Unix variant products.
Must to have:

• Minimum 8 yrs experience in software design and development in Systems management messaging protocols(RPC SSL HTTP RDP)
• Minimum 2 years in leading the team developing Management console products like (Novalink HMCFoglight VMAN VeenaM ONE…etc).
• Experience in working with Virtualization/Virtualization Management SW REST API Network application development.
• Extermely comfortable with Linux development – commands shell and its usage. Ability to write/modifying Shell Programs – Bash KSH CSH.

Good to have:

• Extremely comfortable in Linux/unix development environment – commands/shell Libraries and managing the development environment & Linux Administration.
• Experience working with install/Build scripts Makefiles and configuration.
• Strong team player with good communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global team environment
• Proven command over the English language both written and verbal

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Sound knowledge of virtualisation concepts especially LPAR KVM and z/VM;
• Solid understanding of systems architecture (Hardware/ Firmware)
• Knowledge of Linux administration
• Familiar with IBM Mainframe environment (hands-on would be Plus)