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Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Network DevOps Engineer you will have passion for improving the way our teams work by creating automations and micro-services that can match the demands of our global Cloud.

You will be faced with a great challenge of scale, the infrastructure, and micro-services you work on and enhance is used to solve business problems involving millions of data sources. You will be challenged to deploy and operate services and automations leveraging a wide variety of open source and commercial technologies. If you're a talented Developer with experience in Networking and Linux systems who seeks responsibility, thrives when empowered in a DevOps environment, and understands the importance of personal accountability then we would like to talk to you.

• Responsible for all aspects of management, improvement, and support of the microservice platform's Linux based infrastructure

• Assist other teams in engineering highly scalable solutions for new and existing services

• Provide feedback to architects regarding any issues that present themselves

• Manage multiple projects with various priority levels and time lines from start to finish

• Act as escalation point for internal support departments in resolving a wide variety of customer facing issues regarding environment deployment, service issues, and technical questions

• Consistently meet deadlines for complex issues and new projects involving multiple teams

• Demonstrate best practices in all aspects of administration

• Leverage various languages to build features based on an architectural design

• Participate in weekly rotating on-call responsibilities, possibly providing 24/7 coverage when needed.

• Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services

• Continuously stay abreast of new developments in supported operating systems to ensure consistent compatibility with established infrastructure

• Must collaborate with other departments to resolve complex issues and be detail oriented

• Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of applicable experience with Linux systems in a production environment

• 5+ years of applicable experience in software development

• Understanding of basic network concepts, familiarity with TCP/IP and VLAN functionality

• Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks

• Demonstrative written and verbal communication skills to audiences with a wide variety of technical knowledge

• Very strong troubleshooting skills towards root cause analysis and practical issue resolution

• Strong understanding of universal network services (DNS, HTTP, LDAP, DHCP)

• Strong understanding of typical infrastructure services (e.g. MySQL or other DBs, OpenSSH)

• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (PHP, Bourne shell, Ruby, Python, Go)

• Experience using automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) to deploy and configure environments

• Understanding of security thinking in service and operating system configuration

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Exposure to Kickstart

• Experience with microservice orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Openshift, HashiCorp Nomad)

• Experience with time-series and document databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Prometheus)

• Experience with message buses (e.g., Apache Kafka, NATS)

• Experience with key-value stores and service discovery mechanisms (e.g., Redis, HashiCorp Consul, etc)

• Experience with secrets storage tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, Thycotic)

• Experience with Golang development

• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, XenServer)

• Experience with compliance regimes

About Business UnitIBM 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.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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