OpenShift Engineer
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Introduction
Are you interested in developing and contributing to Open Source? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Is your favourite OS Linux based and you enjoy in depth programming? If so, our team is the right place for you! We are expanding our IBM development team in Waterford. The team is responsible for enhancing Openshift Virtualization for Z. This includes device drivers, storage, networking and container orchestration, with tests and devops(CI/CD).
Your role and responsibilities
As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences. Your responsibilities will include the design and specifications for new features, implementation of the design, identifying and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream open source community repositories, and solving client problems. This position requires working onsite 3 days per week. Required technical and professional expertise
- Strong desire to work on containers related software development within the Linux operating (Go and bash script)
- Interested in joining open source development communities (kubevirt and kubernetes)
- Understanding of operating systems interfaces (e.g. network cards, storage systems)
- Understanding of performance metrics gathering
- Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting and programming languages (e.g. Bash and Go) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins) Preferred technical and professional experience
- Any previous contributions to Open Source projects Skills in current Linux containers (kubernetes or kubevirt) would be ideal
- Any skills in Linux on IBM Z
- Experience in Go programming language and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
- Experience in performance metrics gathering IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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