Introduction
Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based services.
IBM Cloud Core Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We're looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams to solve complex problems.
You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class cloud services, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.
Your role and responsibilities
The IBM Cloud Databases (ICD) team is responsible for developing and operating the Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that provide Database as a Service (DBaaS) in IBM Cloud. We build a customized platform on Kubernetes using operators that hosts PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
ICD is seeking cloud developers who have a passion for automating, running, and operating databases. You will develop configuration, scripts, and other tooling that allow databases to run in our highly available Kubernetes based Cloud Environment. You will participate in the design of the service, writing tools and automation, building containers, developing tests, determining monitoring best practices, and handling complex customer escalations. You must have an understanding in database software, replication, HA configurations, and operations in a production environment.Introduction
We are a "You build it, You run it" culture. As a database expert, you will join our follow-the-sun rotation where you will be the primary responder for automated system alerts. You will follow runbooks to resolve such issues and use your troubleshooting and analytical skills to diagnose or troubleshoot platform or Data Service issues.
If you have a foundation in any of the databases we offer (or similar) and are interested in expanding that expertise into other database technologies, we would love to hear from you!Required Professional and Technical Expertise
- 2+ years with operating one or more of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or Kafka (or similar) in production environments
- Experience with installing and configuring database software
- Experience in Software Development (preferably Python or Golang)
Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise
- Experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving database hosting issues (e.g, replication, clustering) in production
- Knowledge of database application best practices, including schema and index designs
- Experience in application and performance design using databases and troubleshooting of application-side database issues
- Experience with Kubernetes in production- and CI/CD environments.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required Professional and Technical Expertise
- 2+ years with operating one or more of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or Kafka (or similar) in production environments
- Experience with installing and configuring database software
- Experience in Software Development (preferably Python or Golang)
Preferred technical and professional experience
Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise
Required Professional and Technical Expertise
- 2+ years with operating one or more of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or Kafka (or similar) in production environments
- Experience with installing and configuring database software
- Experience in Software Development (preferably Python or Golang)
Years of Experience:8-12
