Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to shape and transform the digital experience of our large and thriving global IBM Z ecosystem and take it to new heights! You are the type of person who is passionate about staying up to date on the latest digital developments and trends, and delivering innovative and impactful digital experiences. To be successful, you must be highly motivated, detail-oriented, growth minded and a self-starter with a strong business acumen who knows how to get things done at big companies through influence, collaboration and partnering effectively across functional areas. In addition, you must have expertise as a full stack developer with advanced HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge, design skills and experience with Containers, Docker, Kubernetes and Linux. Seeking specific advanced knowledge of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu distributions with

expertise in scripting, ldap, databases, OpenStack, KVM, APIs and a variety of open source products such as Nginx, MariaDB, Apache, Java and Javascript. A strong sense of urgency and the ability to prioritize and manage a complex workload are essential.

As a Software Engineer, you will be an essential part of the team, that designs, develops and manages client-facing digital platforms with compliance to IBM digital marketing and business guidelines.

In addition, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality for digital platforms

• Ensuring high-performance and availability of platforms features and APIs

• Closely working with other teams, including marketing to ensure SEO, design, security standards & legal requirements are met

• Integrating with other existing systems through APIs and middleware layer

• Partnering with stakeholders to determine and implement digital strategies that serve as a basis for achieving user experience objectives and business metrics

• Managing digital reporting and tracking requirements to support programs as required, spanning activities and events registrations, form creation, usage, participation, gamification, etc. Conduct analysis of data and trends for executive level reporting

• Developing and managing various aspects of digital platforms related to usability, functions/features and user interface from a design perspective, working with internal stakeholders

• Sharing best practices and insights with internal / external stakeholders and gain alignment as needed for implementation and testing of new digital function/features

• Providing oversight for digital experience and governance; making recommendations to increase digital efficiencies, improve or resolve operational issues, extend digital reach, and improve ROI (e.g. digital outage contingencies, digital site compliance, leverage best practices and programmatic approaches, etc)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience as Software Developer.

• Linux operating system knowledge and Linux command line operations.

• Expert knowledge of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu Linux Distributions

• General understanding of database operations.

• Object oriented design and programming.

• Expert in front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript and modern web frameworks)

• Expertise in Angular or React development

• Expertise in Node.JS and Typescript development

• Experience with micro frontends and web components

• Experience & knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and their security/sessions/logging aspects

• Experience in integration with 3rd party platforms/solution through REST APIs

• Comfortable with settings up and working with web servers and database layer

• Proven problem solving skills

• Experience with agile concepts and agile development.

• Demonstrated effective communication skills

• Demonstrated teamwork

• Highly self-motivated and resourceful

• Aptitude to learn and apply knowledge quickly

• Readiness to work in US Eastern time zone

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Working knowledge of IBM Z and LinuxONE

• Both Angular and React.JS knowledge

• Basic DevOps knowledge (Travis / Github Actions)

• Programming in Python

• Agile Scrum expertise

• Jira experience

• Experience to work in virtualized environments like KVM.

• Experience with GUI development using the Carbon Design System.

• Linux system administration skill for HW resources and software products including CPU, memory, storage, network, cryptography, KVM, Podman Container, etc.

About Business UnitIBM 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.

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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