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Your Role and Responsibilities
Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based services.
IBM Cloud Core Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly-available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We’re looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud security services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams, offering managers, and customers to solve complex problems.
You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.
Primary responsibilities include but not limited to:
Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem
Developing highly-available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Java, Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more.
Reading open specifications and RFC documents and converting them to design docs and implementation
Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows
Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
A minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent with cybersecurity or cryptography coursework
At least 2 years experience working in Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies
At least 3 years of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Spring, Liberty, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, Redis, distributed caches, containers etc.
At least 3 years of experience building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, container orchestration, performance testing, DevOps etc.
At least 3 years of experience in web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript etc.
Solid understanding of the micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API.
Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.
Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
Understanding of cybersecurity and cryptography principles, certifications, and compliance.
Experience in security, with emphasis on identity and access management – OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, Multi-factor authentication, X509, TLS etc.
Experience with front end development specifically in react and/or angular
Networking & Security (NGINX, Dyn, Snort, etc.)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and development
Linux programming, multithreading and synchronization
Experience in remotely supporting customer engagements to help driving the product adoption
About Business UnitDigitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds – public, private, and hybrid – enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client’s data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.
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