Lead -Backend Developer

Bangalore, IN
Infrastructure & Technology
Professional

Lead -Backend Developer

Bangalore, IN
Infrastructure & Technology
Professional

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a developer highly interested in developing an innovative, future-oriented solution that automates and simplifies the installation, configuration and testing of Linux on Z systems.
Your main duties will include design and implementation of new features, optimizing and maintaining existing code and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with the customers to ensure the software meets their needs.

Step in and be part of IBM System Development Lab community, outstanding for its innovation and team spirit, offering one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.

Engineers in our team work inside a highly agile development environment and are responsible for the full software development life cycle – ranging from designing and implementing of the new product features, testing for industry-leading quality assurance over to continuous product delivery as well as supporting our global customers. You should be thrilled by emerging technologies with our software products for future Mainframe and Cloud-based markets.

What you will do
The IBM Z Hyper Protect Servers team is seeking an experienced Backend Developer

As a Backend developer, you will be part of a highly focused, self-managed team that designs, develops and tests secure solutions created for Z Systems workloads and applications.
Responsible for all aspects of management, improvement, and support of the microservice platform’s Linux based infrastructure. Provide feedback to architects regarding any issues that present themselves. Manage projects with various priority levels and timelines from start to finish.

Act as escalation point for internal support departments in resolving a wide variety of customer facing issues regarding environment deployment, service issues, and technical questions. Consistently meet deadlines for complex issues and new projects involving multiple teams.

Demonstrate best practices in all aspects of administration. Leverage various languages to build features based on an architectural design. Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services.
Continuously stay abreast of new developments in supported operating systems to ensure consistent compatibility with established infrastructure. Must collaborate with other departments to resolve complex issues and be detail oriented.
Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Upto 15 years of Working experience with Linux distributions (Ubuntu/RHEL) in a production environment
Programming Skills:
- GoLang
- Ansible / Terraform / Shell scripts for automation purposes
- Knowledge of working with REST API , gRPC
- Strong knowledge of Containers (for eg. docker / Podman etc) & related technologies like container registries, Dockerfiles,
creating container images, deploying containers
- Strong working knowledge of Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Strong knowledge of Linux basics including packing, package managers, working with system services, distro specific
development
- Knowledge of working with Linux distros like Ubuntu
- Good knowledge of Virtualization like hypervisor, Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, Partitions etc and infrastructure/system
management.
- Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) – basic understanding of how code is built and deployed in a continuous
manner
- Strong Technical leadership skills (achieving excellence through code quality and practices, architecture decisions, innovation)

Domain Expertize :

Knowledge of digital assets and how they work including blockchain / hyperledger fabric and similar frameworks

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

General understanding of private /public / hybrid cloud
concepts
General understanding of HW servers and server components
like CPU / core/ memory/sockets / adapters
Logging/Monitoring (basic understanding and application)

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About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate – they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBM

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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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.

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