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We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

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 AI, analytics, security, commerce, and quantum 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 enterprise cloud computing. We are looking for a backend developer to join our IBM Cloud VPC Observability team. This team is part of IBM Cloud VPC Service dedicated to ensuring that the IBM Cloud is at the forefront of reliable enterprise cloud technology. We are building Observability platforms to deliver performance, reliability and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership efficiency, resiliency and security.

In this role, you will be responsible for producing and enhancing features that collect, transform, and surface data on the various components of our cloud. The ability to take in requirements on an agile basis and be able to work autonomously with high level perspective is a must. You understand cloud native concepts and have experience with highly tunable and scalable Kubernetes based cloud deployments. You will participate in the design of the service, writing tools and automation, building containers, developing tests, determining monitoring best practices and handling complex escalations. If you are the kind of person who is collaborative, able to handle responsibility and enjoys not only sharing a vision but getting your hands dirty to be sure that the vision is made a reality in a fast-paced, challenging environment, then we want to talk to you!

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

· Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant experience
· 2+ years experience and expertise in programming atleast in one language Python/Go/Node.js
· 1+ years experience in developing and deploying applications on Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker
· 2+ years familiarity with working in a CICD environment
· 2+ years experience with developing and operating highly available, distributed applications in production environments on Kubernetes
· Experience with building automated tests, handling customer escalations,
· 1+ years experience with managing service dependencies via Terraform or Ansible
· At least 2 years of experience coding and troubleshooting applications written in Go, Python, Node.js, Express.js.
· 1+ years experience in operating with secure principles
· At least 3 years of experience with micro-service development
· At least 1 years' experience with no-sql database systems such as MongoDB
· At least 1 years' experience with operating, configuring, and developing with caching systems like redis
· Proven understanding of REST principles and architecture
· Familiarity with working with Cloud services (IBM Cloud, GCP, AWS, Azure)

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Advanced Experience with Kubernetes
· Experience with development on PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elastic, MySQL, Redis, or MongoDB
· 2 years experience with managing Linux machines using Configuration management (eg, Chef, Puppet, Ansible). Debian experience is preferred
· 2+ years experience with ability to automate using scripting languages like Python, Shell
· Experience with troubleshooting, using and configuring Linux systems
· 2+ years experience with infrastructure automation
· 2+ years experience with using monitoring tooling like Grafana, Prometheus

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IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

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ABOUT IBM

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.

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