Developer

Hybrid - Bangalore, IN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Are you enthusiastic about technology? Do you enjoy creating new things? Do you aspire to contribute to the development of IBM's Cloud offerings? If your answer is YES, then we have the perfect opportunity for you! The shift towards consuming IT as a service, i.e. the cloud, is one of the most significant changes in our industry in decades. At IBM, we are committed to transforming our technology to an as-a-service model and assisting our clients in fully leveraging the cloud. With industry leadership in analytics, security, commerce, and cognitive computing, as well as unparalleled hardware and software design and industrial research capabilities, no other company is as well-positioned as IBM to seize the full potential of cloud computing. The Cloud Infrastructure Development team is a team dedicated to ensuring that the IBM Cloud is at the forefront of cloud technology, from data center design to network architecture to storage and compute clusters to flexible infrastructure services. We are building IBM's next generation cloud platform to deliver performance and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale with efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients. We are seeking a skilled Cloud Software Developer to join our team in Bangalore, India. The ideal candidate will be working with our customer-facing Cloud Infrastructure APIs, SDK, CLI, and Terraform components. In this role, you will be responsible for enabling end-to-end features across these clients and integrating them seamlessly into IBM's existing cloud offerings. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, utilizing advanced SDK generators for different languages, and maintaining the IBM Cloud Infrastructure Terraform Provider open-source project and the public-facing command line interface. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design, and ensure the successful delivery of new capabilities from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and maintaining high-quality API specifications that drive the development and consumption of our cloud services.
• Developing Terraform resources/data-sources for IBM-Cloud features, utilizing latest Hashicorp terraform plugin SDKs.
• Developing CLI interfaces, packer plugin and SDKs for IBM-Cloud features.
• Develop cloud infrastructure templates using tools like Terraform.
• Develop automation templates/tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration & change management in a toolset such as Terraform, Ansible / Chef and puppet.
• Develop testcases, checklists etc. for validation/enforcement of best practices w.r.t cloud infrastructure management.
• Develop CI/CD automation for the cloud native applications using Jenkins and Travis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• 3-8 years of experience in front-end development.
• 3+ years of relevant experience with strong programming experience in Golang and Python.
• Strong experience / expertise with service-oriented architecture and REST API, developing and maintaining code generators from Open API specifications.
• Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code toolset (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud/ SaaS architecture using IBM Cloud/Azure/ AWS/ SoftLayer/ OpenStack/Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands on Experience/Experience with test automation.
• Experience working with distributed Agile development team and its methodologies.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Travis.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. With good written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of Java and Node JS.
• Knowledge about cloud infrastructure layers like Compute, Network, Storage, etc.
• Knowledge about cloud infrastructure governance and policy.
• Experience with large scale cloud infrastructure deployments.
• Experience using Container management technology such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with IBM Cloud Platform.