Kubernetes Developer

IBM

Today
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IT - Software
Mulhuddart, Ireland (On-Site/Office)

Introduction

Watsonx Orchestrate is an AI-powered automation tool designed to streamline and simplify repetitive business tasks, empowering professionals to focus on high-value work.
Leveraging large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven workflows helps teams enhance productivity, reduce manual effort, and accelerate decision-making.
We believe in open architectures and standards and run our cutting-edge AI on every cloud. We live and breathe Linux, Kubernetes, and RedHat OpenShift.
We strive to create the most portable, scalable, and performant AI infrastructure. If you share our passion and have experience with managing Linux systems in IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure, please get in touch with us!

Your role and responsibilities

We seek a Kubernetes Developer with a strong interest in OpenShift, Kubernetes Operators, Ansible, Helm, and Go to join our team.
The ideal candidate will have professional experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop, deploy, and manage Kubernetes Operators using the Operator Framework and Operator SDK.
  • Implement Ansible-based operators for managing resources and controllers on OpenShift clusters.
  • Define control loops (Observe → Analyze → Act) for operators to codify the behavior of Kubernetes resources.
  • Translate human operational knowledge into software to manage applications, including installation, upgrades, scaling, backups, restores, and self-health monitoring.
  • Contribute to the development of custom resources and custom resource definitions (CRDs) to extend the Kubernetes API.
  • Provide Level 3 support by troubleshooting complex issues and resolving them promptly.


Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Intermediate professional experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes resources (Pod, ConfigMap, secret, service, route, PersistentVolumeClaim) and controllers (Deployment, ReplicaSet, StatefulSet, DaemonSet).
  • Working knowledge of Git repositories and version control.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Proficiency in Go programming language for developing operators.


Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Experience with Ansible-based operators on OpenShift clusters.
  • Familiarity with Helm for packaging and deploying applications on Kubernetes.
  • Contributions to open-source projects related to Kubernetes Operators.


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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.

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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.

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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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