Introduction
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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)