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A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.
This role is on the Self-Managed Release Engineering Team, a sub team of the Platform Engineering organization. This team standardizes the release process of self-managed artifacts such as binaries, Linux packages, terraform providers, and docker images, across all of our product lines. Our mission is to build tools that give teams a repeatable, reliable, and lovable way to deliver all their artifacts to customers on a scalable platform. We believe our customers (internal developers in R&D) should enjoy using our tools and our tools should be transparent enough that they are a part of their day-to-day development workflow without additional toil.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
Architect, build, improve, maintain, and document internal release systems and pipelines.
Collaborate across internal teams to lead and improve release tooling and services while fostering a culture of inclusivity, respect, and openness. Contribute to building an environment where all voices are heard and valued.
Be responsible for the full lifecycle of feature development on common release tooling components from design through testing, release, and ongoing support.
Continuously improve automated build, test and deployment workflows.
Help to evolve the CI/CD strategy for our product pipelines with a focus on reusability, reliability and scale.
Work on projects to help integrate our self-managed products with our Cloud offerings.
Participate in measuring and quantifying improvements in our release processes
Mentor other release engineers, nurturing a culture of high-quality work and continuous learning.
Participate in our on-call rotation to resolve critical release issues for our internal customers in Engineering.
Share best practices for releasing software within and across teams
Within 1 month, you’ll…
Learn about our company, products, and team.
Have 1-1’s and pairing sessions with team members you'll be working most closely with, and spend time getting to know your peers across the engineering org.
Find opportunities for improvements within our existing CI/CD pipelines, and in our existing tools.
Dive into the things we’ve built and learn more about our coding and releasing practices along the way.
Complete your first ticket by committing changes and helping perform code reviews.
Within 3 months, you’ll…
Gain an understanding of the shared struggles and common pitfalls within engineering, and work to alleviate those with better automation, tooling, and documentation.
Begin working on your first project within a group, ship the MVP, celebrate your success, and iterate based on feedback.
Review and comment on project proposals from other team members.
Within 6 months, you’ll…
Extensively contribute to tools and services which will enable self-service developer workflows and reduce toil.
Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine and prioritize new features and enhancements. You understand and can foresee how decisions may impact the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of our team and closely related teams.
Write and share a project proposal with the team.
Lead a group project, and present in one of our quarterly demo sessions to key stakeholders.
This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.