IBM jobs - Site Reliability Automation Engineer

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a dynamic, Site Reliability Automation Engineer to join the IBM Cloud team who is responsive to market needs, to deliver value to our clients in a fast changing cloud landscape. The team is dedicated to ensuring that the IBM Cloud is at the forefront of cloud technology, from data center design to network architecture to storage and compute clusters to flexible infrastructure services. We are building IBM's next generation cloud platform to deliver performance and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients.

In this Site Reliability Engineer role, you will work closely with the entire Cloud development organization to support, maintain and operationally improve the cloud infrastructure.

You Focus On The Following Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for maintaining the reliability, stability, and efficiency of the platform
• Automate and Operate health monitoring of the production systems
• Automate and Operate return to service procedures for Cloud Platform Components
• Integrate automation with operational requirements

Work with Operations’ and Engineering to:

• Define operational requirements
• Automate operational requirements
• Participate in deployment of systems
  
  

Work With Partners To

• Identify and resolve issues
• Discuss and plan integration requirements
• Integrate new components (object store, GPU etc) into the Platform
• Ensure systems are Secure and Compliant
  
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in hands-on production administration of large system environment
• Experience in establishing, following, and improving upon procedures within a mission critical environment
• Must be efficient in writing scripts
• Must be extremely comfortable using and navigating within a Linux environment
• Musts have the ability to do high level debugging and problem analysis by examining logs and running Unix commands
• 2+ years Experience with github, perl and python
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment
• Understands how DNS works
• 4+ years or more experience in virtualization environments such as AWS / Softlayer/Zen/VMWARE
• 2+ year’s Experience with configuration management systems (SALT/Ansible / Chef)
• 2+ year’s Experience using splunk and or ELK
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Proven experience in driving the stability of cloud platforms
• Monitoring experience such as Zabbix or Nagios

JIRA Experience

About Business Unit

Digitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds - public, private, and hybrid - enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client’s data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.

Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when you’re looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.