Site Reliability Engineering Professional - Linux

Hybrid - Bangalore, IN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

System Engineers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Responsibilities

• Manage the critical IaaS infrastructure, a fleet of systems that run customer workloads
• Manage and allocate tools, accelerators, frameworks, templates and other asset related to engineering productivity and quality that enable service delivery.
• Foster an environment that enables teams to do things correctly, quickly, consistently and with less effort and learning.
• Administer and maintain business critical infrastructure and foundational tools - OS, Virtual Machines, load balancers, DNS, Chef, Splunk and such like that run the IBM Cloud
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and issues, on time
• Support development teams from within and outside the organization in making use of core infrastructure.
• Continually improve systems and processes with regards to automation and monitoring.

Requirements

• 5+ years of strong, deep knowledge of Unix based computer operating system + system administration skill
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with installing, decommissioning servers, operating virtualized environment, backup and recovery
• 5+ years of hands-on experience, very solid understanding of IP networking concepts.
• Intermediate to advance scripting abilities - Ansible, Chef and Python skills preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of experience with load balancers like Citrix Netscalar, nginx etc
• Advanced understanding of IP networking, packet framing, and dynamic routing protocols.
• Vendor certifications: Red Hat, CompTIA