DevOps Engineer

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 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. The Software Defined Networking (SDN) Business unit focuses on software based networking, an architecture approach that enables network to be intelligently and centrally controlled using software with main focus on automating network functions, allowing for simpler provisioning and management of network resources, everywhere from the data center to the campus to the edge.

Responsibilities

• Debug, design, engineer and execute pipelines designed to facilitate NMS development
• Work closely with QA to promote authorized products and components for release to IBM customers
• Contributes to the development of new theories and methods for automation in QA
• Attend and participate in various Engineering meetings for the team
• Manages DevOps test environment and data using various tools such as Jenkins & GIT
• Work with SevOne and IBM TaaS Artifactory to provide Engineers with repositories for artifacts
• Evaluate and test software bug fixes, extensions, and features
• Evaluate product code according to specifications

Requirements

• Over all 7 to 12 years of experience with substantial experience building applications using GitLab and GitHub CI / Python / PHP / Bash / JavaScript / Groovy
• Experience reading code to understand the thought process of the designer
• Experience with Jenkins / Automation Server / CI/CD / Cron
• Experience with GIT
• Strong Linux OS Experience with a focus on disk configuration and package management/updates on RHEL and Ubuntu
• Critical thinker with a problem-solving mindset
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of load balancers, routers, call manager, switches and knowledge of networking protocols such as routing, DNS, and SNMP