Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Data and AI Development team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Backend development Engineer to join us. Our services belong to Match360 product portfolio. Our services are tightly integrated with IBM Cloud Pak for Data where customers can access a suite of leading data and AI capabilities in a unified experience. You are a Backend Developer, who will Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex product components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms. As an ambitious individual who can work under senior architects direction towards agreed targets and goals, you have the ability to manage change and to work under stress. You are curious to learn as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform as global team member outside of North America for team assistance with pipeline related requests including build failures, network/hardware issues, test failures, etc..
• Track issues in the pipeline, communicate the failures with the internal team, and demonstrate ability to troubleshoot and resolve majority of issues independently.
• Support pipeline technologies (Jenkins, Travis, Artifactory, GitHub, etc) and identify issues and action upon them with appropriate teams/support.
• Troubleshoot systems (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) to identify errors in code and deployment.
• Modify/add pipeline scripts (shell scripting) to resolve pipeline issues reported in update upstream services job, install or PR jobs.
• Monitor cluster pools and ensure update service job is successful for every cluster on a daily basis. Responsible for tracking the failures in the update job of each of the clusters, communication of failures, and resolution with the team.
• Works in programming languages like Java, Node.js, server-side JavaScript, Ruby, Python
• Participate in software design and code reviews.
• Works with client-server architectures, networking protocols, application development, and databases.
• Uses and develops RESTful APIs and web services.
• Understands user and system requirements.
• Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub.
• Ensure good code coverage. Support bug fixes during testing and deploy to target environments.
• Participate in the planning, creation and execution of automated test cases and load/performance testing. Create/maintain technical documentation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+Years of experience is required. Understanding and experience with Backend Development
• Proven development experience in Core Java, Java J2EE, MicroServices Architecture.
• Expertise in Building Restful API, SDK APIs using different frameworks.
• Experience with test-driven development, writing / executing Unit Tests, and DevOps.
• Should have experience in XML and JSON, Ant.
• Knowledge of database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL and Graph Databases.
• Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.
• Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Helm Charts, Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.).
• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP etc.
• Experience and working knowledge of version Control systems like Github, shell scripting, and build tools like Maven/Gradle

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.
• An authority on Cloud Native Application architecture, Docker's and Microservices.
• Working experience on Docker/Kubernetes, the DevOps, Micro services.
• Worked on building integration flows on various Application Programming Interface (API) development platforms

About Business UnitIBM 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. IBMs 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. IBMs 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.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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