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 Are you interested in developing automation tools and Open Source? Your favorite operating system is Linux? Would you like to be part of an Open Source community and do you intend to build up a reputation as an Open Source maintainer? Are you passionate about bringing in your expertise and developing your career in an International Agile development culture?

If so, our team is the right place for you!

Our Linux infrastructure automation development team is responsible for providing tools to automate the installation of Linux distributions. The tools manage relationships between Z datacenter resources and allocate them to specific projects and users according to a role-based schema and use HMC API to control LPARs, Terminal for z/VM and ssh for KVM-based installations.

Further they support running Ansible playbooks on installed systems and include them into existing pipelines to be part of continuous release process. The automation tools enable developers and testers to effortlessly bring up their environments without necessitating a deep understanding of the IBM Z platform.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of Working experience as a Full Stack Developer

• Strong background in Software development with indepth knowledge of C/C++ with expertise in Python backend applications, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, designing REST API, distributed services.

• Strong development skills in rust (maintaining a Rust codebase, maintaining Rust packages using Cargo)

• Experience with React frontend (Typescript, React, SPA, webpack, backend API consumption)

• Strong Core Linux Development skills (git, shell, containers and orchestration, system monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, integration and end-to-end tests, playbooks and process automation, network segmentation)

• Experience with deployment on OpenShift

• A Self-starter Individual with excellent problem-solving skills, able to work independently and as a part of the team.

• Broad and proven know-how in database technology and practical experience in software development and agile methodology

• Good Project management skills (iteration or other agile flavours, cross-team coordination, aligning with customer goals)

• Good Community management skills (working with open source contributors, client outreach and other public relations)

• Strong Technical leadership skills (achieving excellence through code quality and practices, architecture decisions, innovation)

• Strong English communication skills both written and Verbal

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in open source development using rust

• 3+ years of experience in python development

• 3+ years of experience in zLinux operating systems and virtualization/hypervisor

• Expert level skills in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation skills

• Strong English communication skills both written and Verbal

About Business UnitIBM 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.

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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