Introduction
For over 100 years and with a presence in 170 countries, IBM has cultivated a diverse portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems, and software. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM facilitates the global changes across various industries through our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and internet of things As an IBMer, “be essential” to the growth and development for the success of our clients.
To ensure a secure and reliable distributed cloud infrastructure, we are looking for an individual to design and implement back-end security infrastructure processes for IBM Cloud. This position provides the opportunity to be a key part of the team delivering the networks, infrastructure, and services for the world-class experience that IBM Cloud provides.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Coordinate with various infrastructure, security, and compliance teams for critical initiatives including proactive patching, security exceptions, and benchmark standards.
• Assist with institutional compliance, audits, and emergency patching as needed.
• Document and review of existing and emergent processes to ensure security/compliance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Excellent communication skills and experience with ticketing, change management, and documentation software (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub/Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.).
• 1+ years of experience using security remediation strategies to solve problems.
• 3+ years of combined practical experience with Linux (RHEL/CentOS preferred) and Windows Server.
• 1+ years of practical experience with one or more virtualization technologies: Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer (Preferred), VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.
• Proficiency with one or more languages: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, etc.
• Applicable experience with solving problems via configuration management software (e.g. Ansible, Chef, SCCM, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.), by creating roles/runbooks/etc.
• Experience with container technologies: Kubernetes (preferred), OpenShift, Docker, etc.
• Practical experience with NMS (e.g. Zabbix, Nagios) and log aggregation (e.g. Splunk).
• Practical knowledge with Networking and Storage technologies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Previous institutional compliance or regulatory administration experience.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM discipline.
• Experience in process improvement and automation development using both in-house/proprietary and third-party software.
• Experience managing software/application development and related IT infrastructure.
• Experience with Windows GPO and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM).