A sneak peek into this role:

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join the IBM Watson Media Infrastructure team and help us maintain and improve the key aspects of our leading SaaS video streaming platform.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at IBM Watson Media, you will maintain and continuously develop the infrastructure which contains thousands of machines and services in 30 data centers, petabytes of video data, and serves millions of viewers and broadcasters all over the world. The infrastructure workload is spread across multi-cloud providers, consisting of virtual machines, bare-metal servers, and Kubernetes clusters, the latter amounting to 30% and growing.
We continuously improve our tools and methods to make our systems to be more robust, scalable, and easier to maintain.
We strongly believe in automation to allow our engineer focus on the most critical and impactful work. We expect everyone in the team to continuously look for ideas to continuously improve our tools and methods to make our systems to be more robust, scalable, and easier to maintain.

Why youll love your job:

– Designing, developing, and maintaining IBMs video streaming solutions infrastructure and cooperating with the related development teams
– Evaluating open source projects, applications, and solutions, adopting them into the current infrastructure
– Provide on-call duty for the supported systems
– Design, build and implement solutions through DevOps methodologies
– Continuously improving the systems monitoring
– Develop and deploy changes via infrastructure as code
– Collaborating in cross-team projects
– As part of the team, you will provide code reviews to the other team members
– Modernize legacy systems to container-based solutions
– Ensure to comply with the industry standards and regulations

What you will bring to the team:

– Keep yourself up-to-date and improve yourself continuously
– Being social and a team player
– Being able to work independently, making decisions and discussing them with the team
– Having at least 3-4 years of infrastructure or DevOps experience
– Reading and writing in English
– Aware of Cloud-Based services and solutions (eg. IBM Cloud, AWS)
– Proficient in at least one Linux distribution system administration (Ubuntu preferred)
– Possessing a DevOps mindset: you feel responsible for both the operation and the code developed by the team

Experience with the following are bonus points, but not necessary, you can learn them at IBM:

– We embrace T-shaped engineering skills. The more these apply to you, the better.
– Working experience with configuration management systems (eg. Chef, Ansible) and infrastructure as code systems (eg. Terraform, CloudFormation)
– Experience with Docker and container orchestration solutions (eg. Kubernetes) and Helm
– Familiar with at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Ruby, Bash
– Being familiar with some of the following Hashicorp products (eg. Terraform, Consul, Vault)
– Understanding and using Continuous Integration (CI) systems (eg. Jenkins, Gitlab CI)
– Experience in managing high availability (eg. Keepalived, ALB, Elastic IP, DNS Load Balancer)
– Experience in monitoring systems (eg. Prometheus, Nagios/Icinga)
– Familiar with some of these: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, MySQL/RDS, RabbitMQ, LDAP, OpenVPN
– Experience with CDN providers (eg. Akamai, Fastly)
– Network knowledge and experience (eg. L2/L3, CIDR, ARP, 802.1q, IPtables, Calico, FRRouting)
– Understand how the SSL certificates work (eg. RSA, X.509, CA, OCSP, Lets Encrypt)
– Being able to troubleshoot problems in unfamiliar environments
– Technical documentation writing skills

In return we provide you with:

– Dynamic, diverse, inclusive, and supporting environment
– Professional, skill – growth opportunities, reskilling possibility
– Access to worldwide leading technologies
– Agile office area
– Hybrid working model
– Competitive compensation and benefit package including healthcare