Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
In the role of Storage Developer, you would be responsible for designing and development of features for IBM Storage family of storage products, IBM Software Defined Storage portfolio & IBM cloud storage services.

You will be owning and driving product functionality as SME and represent it in global product team.

You will work with the senior technical leaders and manager in effectively managing the deliverables through technical skills and prior experience.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
This role requires 5-7 years of industry experience in storage product architecture, design, development, support, debugging and testing using C/C++ in storage domain.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Technical Skills

• Strong Storage domain background with experience in one or more of SAN, Block level protocols (SCSI, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI), Replication, Data Deduplication, Storage Virtualization
• Strong system programming skills in C and C++.
• Hands on experience with Linux/UNIX Operating Systems.
• Strong Linux / UNIX system programming skills, Kernel development experience is highly desirable
• Good Knowledge of Linux commands, shell, Perl, Python scripting
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Strong OS internals including multithreading, RPC, socket programming.
• Demonstrated excellent problem solving and debugging skills to analyse and resolve complex technical issues.
• Strong expertise in debugging tools such as Crash, gdb, log analysis
• Experience with any Source code control system (Git/Gerrit) and any Defect Tracking system (Jira)
• Good understanding of Agile Software development lifecycle and methodology

• Soft skills

• Ability to plan development activities meticulously, identifying dependencies and proactively work towards resolution
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with team and report accurate status
• Experience working with Global teams
• Good technical leadership skills to mentor new team members

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working with Ethernet, Fibre-Channel adapters
• Experience / Knowledge of block storage replication/concepts