Introduction
We are looking for skilled Software Engineer to join our IBM AIOps Team, based
in Dublin.
Our mission is to help our clients innovate faster, reduce operational cost and
transform IT operations (ITOps) across a changing landscape with an AIOps
platform that delivers visibility into performance data and dependencies across
environments.
As a back end developer you’ll play a pivotal role implementing algorithms and
business logic able to monitor health and performance of IT and network
infrastructure. This area of development is part of the Watson AIOps
component.
You will work on fully distributed software based on microservices mainly
implemented in Java, using kafka as bus, Cassandra, Postgres(and PostGIS) for
data storage. Most of the test pipelines at any stage of integration are managed
by using Jenkins. Node.js serve as server in a sub part of our microservices.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Work in a cross functional team focusing on distributed software development, SaaS development lifecycle.
• Design and code services that are reusable, scalable and meet critical architecture goals.
• Creating and encouraging a culture of quality on the team and within the greater organization
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating engineering efforts
• Establishing good practices for improving product quality
• Performing code/design reviews/inspections Analyzing defects and performing root cause analysis

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Extensive experience in software development experience with multi-threaded and Cloud native technologies.
• Experience as team tech lead
• Strong development skills on technologies such Java, Node.js is a plus.
• Real world experience of Kubernetes/Openshift managed environments or related cloud-native technologies.
• Experience of Kafka, Cassandra and Postgres technologies. Experience working with CI/CD processes, DevOps methodologies and tools such as git, Jenkins, Travis.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of Spark would be desirable
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with remote office locations