Senior Development Architect

Job Description

IntroductionAt IBM, work is more than a job it s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world s most challenging problems If so, lets talk.Your Role and Responsibilities How can we effectively design and deliver Observability platforms and services to be employed for IBM Cloud VPC Offering, a large scale, highly distributed cloud infrastructure We are looking for an individual who will work on a team that will design, develop and implement automated platforms and services for VPC Observability mission to enable SRE s and developers to manage their services, reduce costs for operation and MTTR. The job provides the opportunity to work and collaborate with experienced and knowledgeable technical leaders and grow your career and build expertise as a platform engineer.
• Experienced in conceptualization, analysis, architecture, solution design and development of software products and services. This involves engaging in and improving the lifecycle of a observability service built for monitoring, eventing, logging, dashboarding etc. from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Adopt and build on automation solutions governed by SRE principles including CI CD pipelines, configuration management, immutable infrastructure deployment, auto healing systems etc.
• Ensure compliance and security integrity of the environment and build secure practices. Have a deep understanding of how security impacts each stage of the development pipeline and the final product or service. Identify gaps and embed secure practices into our processes.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing, testing and identifying software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Familiarity with distributed architecture, event-driven architecture.
• Work with and adopt open source technologies as well as participate in new IBM innovations across IaaS
• A self-driven attitude to propose, test and implement solutions and improvements for review and consideration with your peers
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post mortem.
• In addition, you will mentor, share expertise and help build a self sustaining team
• You will also work with wider teams to enable consumption of service, identify gaps and provide thought leadership
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• 5+ years of experiences in building, deploying and managing large scale services / platforms for Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud or Google Cloud.
• Delivering micro services at scale; designing micro services solutions
• Data modeling and experience with data engineering tooling and platforms such as Kafka, Spark.
• Good understanding of real time streaming and batch data processing architectures
• Python, Scala experience (Can also have Java, Go Lang, Rust)
• Container orchestration, performance and security (Kubernetes / Docker)
• DevSecOps practices
• Experience with one or more of the following: NoSQL Databases (eg: Cassandra, Mongo), Columnar Databases (eg RedShift, Snowflake), Search Engines (eg Elastic Search), Spark, Hadoop.
• Scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, shell
• Release Engineering (Git Branching, versioning, tagging) and experience with Agile software development
• CI/CD tooling (Preferred ArgoCD, Tekton)
• 2+ years experience with one or more of these Monitoring tools: Sysdig, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc.
• Experience with one or more automation and configuration management tools/solutions: Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, python, bash, puppet, Rundeck, etc.
• Working knowledge of Compute, Network, Storage and Virtualization technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly responsible, motivated, follow / establish development practices and able to work with little direction
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience with design and development of complex system
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems and customer issues
• Working knowledge of Linux clustering, HA, and Fault Tolerant systemimplementations: active/active, active/passive, pacemaker, keepalived, haproxy, LVM
• Familiarity with implementation of one or more telemetry systems like Grafana-Loki, Mimir-Prometheus, OTel and their architectures
• 2+ years of experience with complex systems and layered architecture models: OSI, Kubernetes, virtualization, TCP/IP, etc.
• Working knowledge of what TCP/IP, BGP, Sockets, routing protocols and how they participate in debugging and Highly available systems at scale.
• Ability to debug an issue across the entire OSI stack of a typical Linux environment across storage, network, compute, OS, system tuning, orchestration.
• Ability to debug stack traces to particular libraries in code and root cause identification.
• Extensive experience with databases and debugging their usage with application stacks
• Experience with and understanding of the interaction and dependencies of a typical three tier model of application stacks, as well as cloud
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Keyskills :
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