IBM Hiring for SRE at Kochi, Kerala Full Time

Your Role and Responsibilities

Instana is a leading observability and application performance monitoring (APM) tool. Our mission is to be the best-in-class tool for cloud-native microservice architecture observability. To achieve this, we receive and process billions of data points every day. We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our globally distributed SRE team that operates Instanas SaaS platform.

As a member of this team you will:
operate and improve our infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security and cost

develop tooling to further improve the teams efficiency and workflows

participate in on-call rotation, incident response and post mortems

pair with colleagues on tasks to share knowledge in the team and the company

understand, analyze and improve cost of the platform

work with product teams to understand reliability and costs implications of new components and services perform production readiness checks design meaningful SLOs that help us meet our availability goals.

help design the application and system architecture to meet upcoming scalability requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

5+ years of software development experience (Golang and Java preferred)

system administration/engineering experience (Ubuntu and RedHat preferred)

experience with at least one of these datastores: Kafka Cassandra Elasticsearch Clickhouse CockroachDB

experience with at least one of these clouds: GCP AWS IBM Cloud

experience with Kubernetes (GKS, EKS, IKS, Vanilla K8s, Redhat Openshift K8s)

experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform, Chef, Ansible)

The desire to work collaboratively on new tasks

The ability to learn what is needed to get the job done

Great written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with IBM platforms: x86, Power and System Z, as well as github for code and defect management

Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

About Business Unit

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

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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