SRE - VMWare Engineer jobs in Bangalore at IBM

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

Who you are:
The shift toward the consumption of IT as a service, i.e., the cloud, is one of the most important changes to happen to our industry in decades. 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 analytics, security, commerce, and cognitive 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 cloud computing.

We are looking for a dynamic, Site Reliability and Automation Engineer to join our Cloud Operations Team, who is responsive to market needs, to deliver value to our clients in a fast-changing cloud landscape. The Cloud team is dedicated to ensuring 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 and operating IBM's VMware Solutions 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.
Your Role and Responsibilities
In this Site Reliability and Automation Engineer role, you will work closely with the Data Center, the entire Cloud development organization and IBM vendors to support, maintain and operationally improve the cloud infrastructure. Your focus will be the following key responsibilities:

Support and Operate Cloud Service delivery
Automate health monitoring of the production and test systems
Automate return to service procedures for Cloud Service delivery
Support the compliance and security integrity of the environment through your work
Partner with other teams, functional managers and program managers to deliver mission-critical services to the market
Support development of new and existing capabilities for our compute, storage and network services
Integrate automation with operational requirements
Work with Engineering and Development to:
Define operational requirements
Automate operational requirements
Work with Support and Infrastructure to:
Identify and resolve complex issues
Discuss and plan integration requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

7yrs of IT industry experience and 5 years of experience in data center infrastructure, engineering and support
Minimum of 5 years’ experience with hands-on production administration of large virtual system environments using VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter
Experience with VMware NSX, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Network Insight, vSAN
Experience in establishing, following, and improving operational procedures within a mission critical environment
5+ years of experience in IT Change, Incident, Problem, Asset management
Must be efficient in writing, debugging and maintaining scripts (Bash and Python)
Ability to do low level debugging and problem analysis by examining logs and running Unix commands
2-3 years of extensive experience with open-source products
Hands on knowledge of using vRealize Log Insight or LogDNA
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience in maintaining cloud based solutions with VMware vCloud Director
Experience with Veeam Backup
Experience with replication/failover using Zerto Platform, VMware vCloud Availability or Veeam Cloud Connect
(Extensive) Experience with scripting languages, such as Bash, Powershell and Python
Working knowledge with SQL (PostgreSQL, MSSQL) and Cloudant
Working knowledge with Networking, sub-netting and Storage technologies
Working knowledge with ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub

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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed 'International Business Machines' in 1924.