Sr Software Developer

  • Software Engineering
  • Professional

Sr Software Developer

  • Software Engineering
  • Professional

Introduction
Elevate Your Career with IBM Ireland – Join Us as a Software Developer!
Are You Ready to Shape the Future of AI and Cloud Technology?
At IBM Ireland, we’re not just developing software; we’re revolutionizing the way businesses operate. As a part of our elite teams, you’ll build the cutting-edge AI-powered, cloud-native and AI solutions. You will reimagine how current and future industries will evolve. Here, your ideas matter, and your work will shape the future!
Why IBM Ireland?
Innovate with Impact: Be at the forefront of technological innovation, developing backend services and APIs that power our world-class AI-infused management features.
Collaborate & Thrive: Work alongside industry-leading Architects, AI Experts, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, and Test Automation Engineers in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment that fosters creativity and teamwork.
Endless Growth Opportunities: With our global reach and commitment to innovation, IBM Ireland is the perfect place to advance your career and explore new possibilities. Our doors are always open for those eager to learn and grow!

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Db2 is the cloud-native database built to power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics at scale, used by organizations in mission critical applications for over 30 years. We are looking for a Software Developer to join us in modernizing and enhancing containerized Db2 for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. You will be working within a global team, solving technical challenges with the latest Kubernetes and Cloud technologies.

As a developer with the Db2 containerization team, you will:
• Work in a fast-paced, highly-collaborative environment
• Design and implement new features to further enhance Kubernetes operator-based Db2 deployments
• Develop, maintain and execute automated functional, integration, regression and performance tests
• Work with customers to resolve critical issues, and address defects
• Automate testing, deployment and optimize processes using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Tekton

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Quick learner of new technologies and a self-starter
• Experience with Golang or Python programming languages
• Familiar with Linux and shell scripting
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across global teams, with excellent oral and written communication

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience with containerized application development/deployment technologies and environments (Docker, Kubernetes Operators, OpenShift)
• Experience with cloud environments, (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
• Experience with Db2 databases
• Experience with agile software development
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, DevOps
• Experience with test-driven development or secure software engineering best practices

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About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.


Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.


Location Statement

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.


Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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