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Site Reliability Engineer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Oct 30, 2025
Introduction

Introduction :

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

About Business Unit :

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 role and responsibilities

As an Entry-Level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at OneIT Lab Engineering Team,

you will join a team dedicated to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of IBM systems

and infrastructure. This plays a critical role in advancing critical IBM Power System development

initiatives, gaining hands-on experience with both physical hardware and software environments.

Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

· Assisting in the setup, configuration, and maintenance of IBM Power servers and related infrastructure.

· Supporting software-related reliability initiatives such as automation, monitoring, performance tuning, and system optimization.

· Participating in incident response, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis for both hardware and software issues.

· Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration between physical systems and application environments.

· Supporting projects related to lab analytics—gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to help guide better business and operational decisions.

· Contributing to the deployment, scaling, and ongoing maintenance of production and test systems.

· Writing clear, concise documentation for processes, configurations, and troubleshooting steps.

· Learning and applying best practices in systems reliability, observability, and infrastructure operations.

You will be expected to grow into a well-rounded SRE capable of tackling challenges in both the physical data center like environment and the software layer that powers our services. Mentorship and hands-on training will be provided to help you develop the skills to excel in both domains.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 2+ years of working experience as SRE engineer

· Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.

· Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.

· Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving, and debugging skills.

· Proficiency in programming concepts and frameworks.

· Proficiency in scripting/coding for automation using Python, shell scripting (bash, etc), Ansible, and related tools and languages.

· Familiarity with server operations, virtualization, and related infrastructure concepts.

· Fundamental understanding of computer networks.

· Fundamental understanding of data science/analytics framework.

· An automation mindset, wherever possible, you should use scripting and automation.

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team to achieve the SRE agenda

· Complete project work, both supervised and unsupervised

· Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in high-pressure environment.

· Good Written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Fundamental understanding of Linux/Unix systems is a plus.

· Fundamental knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes is a plus

· Automation/Scripting: In-depth experience with Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools is a plus, but a fundamental understanding is a must.

· Hands-on experience crafting alerts and dashboards using Python or any other language.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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