DevOps Engineer for CIO Developer Tooling

About the position

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 intent. 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, let's talk. The IBM CIO Organization plays a pivotal role in driving the company's digital transformation and modernization initiatives. Led by the CIO, the organization is responsible for managing the company's information technology (IT) infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity programs. The CIO works closely with other executives and senior leaders to develop and execute the company's overall IT strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's broader business goals. IBM CIO acts as Client Zero to foster a culture of experimentation within the organization, enabling the product team to provide feedback on improving offerings for clients. 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 every day, 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 ongoing 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 every day 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.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of the backend systems.
• Monitor, analyze, and support the application in production to identify and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and manage the application environment.
• Write and maintain unit tests and conduct integration testing to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in backend development and database technologies.
• Document technical specifications, code changes, and system architecture for future reference.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Excellent time management and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and principles, experience in an Agile team
• Understanding of DevOps practices (Continuous Integration/Delivery/Monitoring/etc)
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work with cross functional teams
• Willingness to work with the entire stack (from the database to containers to monitoring and alerting)
• Ability to write and review code and make decisions regarding technical implementations
• Demonstrate ability to learn new domains
• Experience working with developer tools like GitHub, VSCode, CI/CD pipelines
• Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases like Db2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc.
• Experience using & building containers and containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift
• Proficiency in Python programming language and frameworks

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a passion for learning new technologies.