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Your Role and Responsibilities
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 you'll love your job:
Designing, developing, and maintaining IBM's 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
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
What you will bring to the team:
Having at least 3-4 years of infrastructure or DevOps experience
Possessing a DevOps mindset: you feel responsible for both the operation and the code developed by the team
Aware of Cloud-Based services and solutions (eg. IBM Cloud, AWS)
Proficient in at least one Linux distribution system administration (Ubuntu preferred)
Being able to work independently, making decisions and discussing them with the team
Reading and writing in English
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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, Let's 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
Our awards why you might be a proud IBMer:
Randstad: Most Attractive SSC Employer in 2020
Family Friendly Workplace Award (2018, 2019, 2020)
Responsible Employer recognition (2018-2021)
Most Attractive Employer (3rd) (2020)
Disability-Friendly Workplace Recognition (2010-2020)
Disability-Friendly Workplace Best Employee & Role Model Employee Award (2021)
Stevie Awards for our Teams & Professionals (2018, 2019, 2021)
Hungarian Outsourcing Association CSR Award (2021)
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