Introduction

The AI Center of Excellence (COE) team is looking for a motivated and innovative Entry-Level Engineer to join our dynamic and fast-paced environment. As part of the AI COE, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects, contribute to the development of reusable AI modules, and collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive impactful solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to learn, a passion for artificial intelligence, and a commitment to delivering high-quality work in a structured and collaborative setting.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Implement and automate infrastructure solutions that support IBM Cloud products and infrastructure
• Build & Set up test automation and pipeline frameworks in Open Shift and/or Kubernetes environments
• Administer automated CI/CD systems and tools for development and test teams
• Support the compliance and security integrity of the environment
• Partner with other teams, managers and program managers to develop alerting and monitoring for mission-critical services
• Support development of new and enhance existing capabilities for our compute infrastructure services
• Provide technical escalation support for other Infrastructure Operations teams

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of infrastructure engineer with proven record for delivering high-quality, large-scale solutions
• Working knowledge with one or more operating systems: Ubuntu (Preferred), RHEL, CentOS Linux, and Windows Servers
• Working knowledge with one or more Virtualization technologies: Citrix Hypervisor (Preferred), VMware v Sphere, Ubuntu KVM, etc.
• Working knowledge with one or more programming tools: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby and Go.
• Working knowledge with one or more key infrastructure tools/products: Active Directory, Ansible, Chef, etc.
• Working knowledge with Container technologies: Kubernetes (preferred), Docker, etc.
• Working knowledge with Monitoring technologies: Zabbix (preferred), Splunk, etc.
• Working knowledge with Network and Storage technologies
• Working knowledge with Service Now, JIRA, Confluent, and GitHub

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience with Message Queues (Kafka preferred), PostgreSQL Databases, Redis Caching
• Experience with technologies enabling reliable data processing pipelines such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, Splunk; database and data visualization technologies for operations such as SQL dbs, Influxdb, Grafana, Kibana.
• Experience with event monitoring/management ecosystems like Zabbix, Nagios, Sysdig, LogDNA, Service Now.

About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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