IntroductionSoftware 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 ResponsibilitiesAre you passionate about technology? Do you love building new things? Do you want to develop the future of IBM's Cloud offerings? If you answered YES, then we have the right opportunity for you! 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. The Cloud Infrastructure Development team is a team 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 with efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients. We are looking for a talented Cloud Software Developer to join our team in Raleigh-Durham (RTP),NC, someone who will work with our customer-facing Cloud Infrastructure SDK, CLI and Terraform components. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end feature enablement across these clients, and their seamless integration into the broader portfolio of the existing IBM Cloud offerings. You will perform hands-on coding, working with advanced SDK generators supporting different languages, develop and maintain the IBM Cloud Infrastructure Terraform Provider open source project as well as the public facing command line interface. You will be responsible for making sure the clients you deliver work successfully in all deployment environment types, including a virtual environment for developers. In addition, you will collaborate with teams across organization boundaries to gather requirements, design and ensure the delivery of new capabilities end-to-end. As an ideal candidate, you are someone who has a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure deployment and “Infrastructure as Code”, you have repeatedly worked with Go, Python, Java and server-side JavaScript programming languages at an enterprise level. Experience building SDKs and CLIs is preferred as well as Terraform and Ansible. If you are passionate about cloud development, if you enjoy not only sharing a vision, but getting your hands dirty to be sure that your vision is made a reality in a fast-paced, challenging environment, then we want to talk to you! Required Technical and Professional Expertise- 4 to 7 years of relevant experience
- Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Ansible or Puppet, etc)
- Strong programming experience with Python or Java or Node or GoLang
- Strong experience / expertise with service-oriented architecture and REST API
- Strong experience / expertise developing and maintaining code generators from Open API specifications
- Hands on experience with Agile team project delivery practices
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise- Knowledge about cloud infrastructure layers like Compute, Network, Storage, etc
- Knowledge about cloud infrastructure governance and policy
- Experience with large scale cloud infrastructure deployments
- Experience with Compute and Storage Cloud provider orchestration (management of virtual workloads and resources) such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or IBM Cloud Platform
- Experience using Container management technology such as Kubernetes and Docker