Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, let's talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

You are an Engineer based in Poland and are passionate about problem solving and reliability. Your team can count on you to solve hard problems across the entire Apptio Portfolio. You are comfortable working with other SREs, developers, and support to help provide value to the broader organization. You take opportunities to fix problems and step outside your comfort zone to develop your skillset.

The Platform and Site Reliability Engineering team - PRE - at Apptio is responsible for enhancing and maintaining our Kubernetes platform and driving the adoption of SRE best practices across our engineering teams. In this role, you will be part of a team that looks after the development and support of the Apptio Kubernetes Platform in AWS. Our team works closely with our product teams to raise the quality and reliability bar for our products and services and provide feedback and guidance for the adoption of cloud technologies in all stages of the development cycle.

In a typical day on this role, you will interact with Linux, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, DataDog, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, Confluence, Jira, Slack, and AWS. If you don't know all these tools, don't worry, we are not expecting that you know them all, we understand that technology evolves quickly.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in a large-scale, distributed Linux/Unix environment
• Experience with container and scheduling technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Familiarity with RESTful systems and their APIs
• Familiarity with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with declarative infrastructure tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)
• Understanding of IaC, GitOps, CI/CD and SRE principles
• Experience with any high-level programming languages (Golang, Python)
• Security mindset and focus
• Ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously
• Mentoring peers and knowledge sharing skills
• Great communication skills
• Fluent English language skills

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Has experience collaborating with team members in a mostly-remote team
• Has experience developing Kubernetes operators

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

Location Statement

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.