Site Reliability Engineering Professional - Linux

Hybrid - Bangalore, IN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages. IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

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 Linux 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