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Platform Operations Engineer

  • Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)
  • IT development

Job description

As a Platform Operations Engineer, you will be a member of a team responsible for the overall health and availability of the production platform. You will provide consultancy to the product teams on effective DevOps processes, use of tooling, and ongoing support activities. On a day to day basis your focus will be on bridging the gap between our end users and partners, and the development and delivery teams regarding the production availability of the platform. This role will require strong problem solving and time management skills to handle these complex situations effectively.

As an Operations Engineer on the Platform Operations team, your responsibilities will include:

·  Providing squads with the tools and processes needed for each squad to be able to do their own operations.
·  Ensuring that components and solutions excel at performance, reliability and web scalability.
·  Monitor availability, track outages, and provide Root Cause Analysis & postmortem solutions.
·  Maintain compliance in all required areas.
·  Ensure consistent monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools such as New Relic, Logentries, and PagerDuty.
·  Ensure consistent support across all components.
·  Ensure that all squads are able to effectively leverage our CI/CD pipeline.
·  Provide defect tracking and broken link tracking.
·  Complete coding, testing, defect fixes, and production support, using agile CI/CD methodologies, for base tooling within the solution.
·  Analyzing current tools and processes with the goal of enacting improvements geared towards making components and processes more efficient for the entire team.
·  Planning iterations and representing accomplishments at team scrums.
·  Presenting individual and team status during weekly playbacks or on management calls.
·  Managing risks and resolving issues that affect scope, schedule, and quality.
·  Coaching, enabling and collaborating with other team members and development squads.
·  Maintain Platform & Trial environments – including tuning, upgrades and end to end testing.
·  Install, manage OpenShift clusters.
Auto req ID

272709BR
Required Education

High School Diploma/GED
Role ( Job Role )

Software Developer
State / Province

MASSACHUSETTS
Primary job category

Software Development & Support
Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Contract type

Regular
Employment Type

Full-Time
ERBP

Yes
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No
Travel Required

Up to 10% or 1 day a week
IBM Business Group

Cognitive Apps
Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree
City / Township / Village

CAMBRIDGE
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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

From a technical and professional expertise perspective, you will succeed in this job if you have 3+ years of experience in the following:
·  Software Development Applied Knowledge.
·  Experience with operational practices of production support.
·  Experience with user analytics and monitoring, back-end systems communication.
·  Experience with microservices architecture, containers, Kubernetes, automation, systems engineering, load balancing, High Availability/Disaster Recovery.
·  Source control management experience with Git.
·  Experience with DevOps Technology like Jenkins/Travis CI
·  Experience with cloud-native application development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DB2, etc) or NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cloudant, or Cassandra, etc.), Akamai/CDM, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.

Country/Region

United States
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

The following technical and professional expertise is preferred and will greatly enhance your success on the team:
·  Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science or related), or equivalent.
·  Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and container development paradigms
·  Knowledge of the IBM Cloud offering and marketplace ecosystem
·  Infrastructure Operations, Network Production Support experience
·  Knowledge of security architecture, vulnerability management, penetration testing, web application firewalls, secure routing.
Secondary Job Category

Other Software Development & Support
Eligibility Requirements

n/a
Position Type

Professional
Early Professional Track

Not Applicable - Professional Hire
Location Statement

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Introduction

The IBM Cognitive Applications team is seeking innovative and enthusiastic software engineering professionals to join our team building the next generation multi-cloud marketplace platform. If you love working with cutting edge technologies, dynamic and high performing teams, then this is the right next step in advancing your career. The team will be challenged to design, develop, and operate cloud applications and services leveraging a wide variety of open source, machine learning, and commercial technologies aimed at dramatically expanding the reach of the IBM Cloud to millions of enterprise developers. Our focus on delivering performance and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership, efficiency, resiliency and security is the cornerstone of our development model and will result in maintaining IBM's leadership position for years to come.
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About Business Unit

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