Software Developer

About the position

We are seeking a skilled Cloud DevSecOps engineer to join our IBM MQ Software as a Service team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for building, testing, maintaining and securing a SaaS service on a variety of hyperscalers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in secure DevOps practices, cloud technologies, container orchestration, continuous integration, and deployment. You will be responsible for overseeing the secure design of key development projects to align with enterprise security architecture, identifying and designing solutions for risks, threats and vulnerabilities and ensuring the smooth and secure operation of our services. The role requires a good level of personal organisation and the ability to work well within a distributed global team in a fast paced and exciting environment. The MQ SaaS team employs agile development practices with all team members actively engaged in the planning, development, testing and usability related tasks owned and delivered by their 'Delivery Team'. Preferred candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated team players who have cloud software skills/experience and demonstrate a genuine desire and aptitude to perform the multi-disciplinary activities inherent in a DevSecOps role. Knowledge of continuous delivery techniques is important to ensure the stability of a live service. Successful candidate will be proficient in Agile Delivery practices and passionate about delivering on team objectives and sprint goals. The work performed will have a high degree of technical content, is diverse and challenging yet always rewarding. If you love technology, a technical challenge, being part of a successful team and want to make a difference to how global business meets the demands of moving data around the world quickly, securely and reliably then MQ SaaS is for you.

Responsibilities

• Building, testing and maintaining a SaaS service.
• Overseeing the secure design of key development projects.
• Identifying and designing solutions for risks, threats and vulnerabilities.
• Ensuring the smooth and secure operation of services.
• Modeling Agile practices and delivering on squad objectives and sprint goals.

Requirements

• 12-20 years experience in Software development.
• Technical expertise in building, deploying and running applications in a Cloud environment such as AWS.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Docker, Istio, and other container technologies.
• Development skills in Golang to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• Management of version control and collaboration using Git and GitHub.
• Strong scripting experience, e.g. bash, Ansible, Python, perl etc.
• Experience in utilizing Helm charts for packaging and deploying containerized applications.
• Ability to implement and maintain GitOps workflows using FluxCD/ArgoCD.
• Knowledge of Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Security and Privacy by Design principles.
• Experience of managing Security and Privacy controls in a Cloud environment such as AWS.
• Previous experience of secure design collaboration for new product features.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years experience in cloud engineering.
• Proficient in agile development methodologies and tools.
• Experience in software development, problem solving & diagnosis.
• Passion to code development, solve complex engineering problems and help customers.
• Ability to pickup product and technical skills quickly and become productive at the earliest.
• Demonstrable coding skills, detail oriented thinking, and creative problem solving skills.