DevOps & Security Engineer

Job description

Introduction
watsonx Code Assistant is an exciting new offering from IBM that strives to revolutionize enterprise software development with Generative AI. We need your expertise, your motivation and your collaboration to take watsonx Code Assistant to the next level. As a DevOps and Security developer for watsonx Code Assistant, you will be responsible for designing and developing components and features for watsonx Code Assistant.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Devops developer, you will work in a Kubernetes based micro services environment to support our bleeding edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.
If you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative workplace, IBM provides an environment where you will be challenged and inspired every single day. And if you relish the freedom to bring creative, thoughtful solutions to the table, there’s no limit to what you can accomplish here.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  2+ years of professional experience working as devops, being familiar with shell scripts and configuration management systems, especially on the Kubernetes platfom (Helm, Kustomize,...)
·  2+ years of experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Travis, Tekton, …)
·  2+ years of experience operating Kubernetes or RedHat Openshift clusters
·  2+ years Experience with at least 1 cloud provider, I.e., AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure or GCP.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience with gitops architecture and tools like ArgoCD
·  Experience developing software with golang, especially if writing kubernetes operators.
·  Experience on security and compliance, working with security scanning tools and validating the software supply chain of software
·  Experience with Prometheus metrics
·  Experience setting up observability systems based on Open Telemetry or other tools.
·  Experience working with infrastructure as code with terraform
·  Has exposure to Open Source (adoption and contributions)