IBM Hiring for Unix at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job Description

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Architects are responsible for keeping up with the latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As Unix Administrator, You will be part of global SRE team that will provide high quality SLA operating a global solution running in multiple regions/projects. Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health. Serve as subject matter related to the service operations and second level of escalation for severity. Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Define, monitor & manage error budgets to define Service level Agreements (SLAs), Objectives (SLOs), and indictors (SLIs).
• Measure and optimise system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
• Design and implement innovations that improve service reliability, infrastructure resiliency and security, and availability.
• Develop/Deploy various tools, framework and solutions for infrastructure monitoring, alerting, scaling, automation and management aspects of our IT infrastructure and services to ensure high availability, latency, and overall system health.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understand the lifecycle of infrastructure project (Design, Implement, Transition and Operation). In-depth understanding of Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) architecture & UNIX Operating System (Preferably RedHat/Suse Linux). Have troubleshooting experience with the ability to analyze technical problems to prevent future occurrence.
• Maintenance of our production infrastructure, tools and services.
• Identify and fill gaps in the monitoring & alerting system
• Gather and analyse metrics from operating systems, subsystems & cloud native technologies to assist in performance tuning, scale-up/scale-down, fault finding & operational excellence.
• Involved in solution/platform design discussion with cross-functional teams to provide the infrastructure insight and manage the proper technology and business trade-offs and ensure the infrastructure meets performance and capacity requirements
• Incident response, troubleshoot, postmortem, author incident reports by coordinating with multiple engineering teams, RCA for issues spanning code, network, database, and system components.
• Design and automate emergency recovery procedures and other tool sets to reduce manual work.
• Responsible for discovering, implementing and automating all measures which are necessary to maintain SLA, uptime & drive down the burden of toil.
• Design and implement innovations (systems, approaches, processes, tools) that improve service reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, infrastructure resiliency, availability & security
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
• Extensive hands-on knowledge of Unix (Preferably RedHat, SUSE Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX) operating system
• Need extensive and hands on knowledge of public cloud (AWS/GCP/IBM) and experience in building cloud infrastructure level applications on AWS/GCP
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ranchar and related CNCF technologies and frameworks
• Fluent in scripting and at least one or other automation tools/programming language e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Golang & Python
• Good understanding with open-source log monitoring software like Prometheus, ELK/EFK/Greylog/DataDog, Istio, etc
• Exceptional ability and deep interest to learn new technologies in this area, solve challenging problems, ample energy to evangelise and implement appropriate solutions across the global teams
• Have keen interest in growing and mentoring your fellow team members.
• Good understanding of large scale data systems and data pipelines including managing NoSQL, SQL and HDFS/Hadoop clusters
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Previous success in technical engineering
• Coding experience beyond simple scripts
• Have proven capability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production

About Business UnitThis position currently sits within Global Technology Services (GTS) Infrastructure Services (IS) or a shared services function supporting GTS.
As announced in October 2020, IBM intends that its managed infrastructure services business of the GTS organization will become an independent company named Kyndryl by the end of 2021, creating two distinct and powerful market-leading companies.
Together, we will advance the vital systems that power the digital economy. Serving over 4,600 technology-intensive, highly regulated customers, including over 75% of the Fortune 100, our people will design, run, and manage the most modern and reliable technology infrastructure that the world depends on today.
We will work flexibly and in partnership with our customers to amplify business outcomes while always pushing ourselves to improve and meet all opportunities. Come join our team of diverse, devoted, and empathetic technology experts who are at the center of discovering what’s next.
Please note: The final decision if this position will transition from IBM to Kyndryl is yet to be confirmed.
At Global Technology Services (GTS), we help our clients envision the future by offering end-to-end IT and technology support services, supported by an unmatched global delivery network. It’s this unique blend of bold new ideas and client-first thinking. If you can restlessly reinvent yourself and solve problems in new ways, work on both technology and business projects, and ask, “What else is possible?” GTS is the place for you!

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