IBM Cloud Databases & Infrastructure DevOps Engineer

Job description

Candidates should have a strong desire to work within a CI/CD environment and have a passion for embracing new cloud technologies and working with our customers to ensure they are successful. You need to be collaborative, able to handle responsibility, and love learning new techniques and tools.

There is no requirement to be an expert in any one language. However, knowledge of Go, Python, Jenkins, Kubernetes, or other scripting languages are useful. Knowledge in operating highly-available PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etcd, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB production environments would also be useful.

The key requirement is to have a passion for supporting, operating and developing a high-quality, highly available service.

Engineers that have been successful in this area typically have:

Track record of understanding the customer problem, taking ownership, and collaborating with others to troubleshoot and define options for overcoming it
Track record in performing live debugging (or historical debugging for RCAs) in production systems through log, metrics, infrastructure, and code analysis
Great communication skills where they can summarize the customer problem and trials to others and take back recommendations to the customer
Ability to self-prioritize issues based on customer impact
Ability to bring back any learning and advocate for or implement improvements to troubleshooting documentation or software
Are great team workers that are willing to turn their hand to whatever the highest priority issue of the day happens to be.
A solid engineering underpinning to understand what high-availability means
They will understand and be skilled in Software component development, Container based deployments and best practice in Security, Compliance, High Availability, Resilience.
Will understand and can contribute to a delivery pipeline that takes code from development though to production in minimal time and little or no impact on the customer and designs and implements tools for automated deployment and monitoring of multiple environments.
They will work with the core principle that: “you build it, you run it”. This includes holding pager shifts where you are the primary responder to system alerts or questions from the worldwide support team, debugging and resolving software/infrastructure/networking issues, and identifying/executing upon opportunities to improve how we operate our software.
They will understand and have worked in collaborative, agile environments, understanding all the key aspects of delivering high quality software services.
Auto req ID

291511BR
Required Education

Bachelor's Degree
Role ( Job Role )

Software Developer
State / Province

DUBLIN
Primary job category

Software Development & Support
Company

(0483) IBM Ireland Product Distribution Limited
Contract type

Regular
Employment Type

Full-Time
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No
Travel Required

Up to 10% or 1 day a week
IBM Business Group

CLOUD
Preferred Education

None
City / Township / Village

DUBLIN
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.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant experience
Experience with monitoring and instrumenting code for observability
Experience with debugging in production systems
Experience with Linux
Experience with programming languages
Fluent English
Capability to work in a global, multicultural and diverse environment
Country/Region

Ireland
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Knowledge of Go, Python, Jenkins, Kubernetes, or other scripting languages
Knowledge in operating highly-available PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etcd, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB environments would also be useful
Knowledge of the IBM Cloud ecosystem
Secondary Job Category

Other Software Development & Support
Eligibility Requirements

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Position Type

Professional
Early Professional Track

Not Applicable - Professional Hire
Location Statement

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