Software engineer – watsonx Orchestrate – Performance Test Engineer

Job title:

Software engineer – watsonx Orchestrate – Performance Test Engineer

Company

IBM

Job description

Introduction
Our mission is to revolutionize digital labor by developing and deploying the latest
conversational artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and speech
technologies in IBM’s industry-leading chatbot platform Watson Assistant.
We believe in open architectures and open standards, and we 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 you 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 ResponsibilitiesThis position is for a software development and automation engineer in the hybrid cloud deployment team of IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate service. Your primary responsibility will be management and automation of watsonx Orchestrate performance tests in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.Although this position is for cloud performance engineering , your responsibilities will span the entire lifecycle of multiple microservices, from technical design, development, testing to deployment and operations. Also, participate in customer calls and provide assistance to support team to help address technical issues.
You will be part of a small agile team, but you will interact with multiple other disciplines including Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and engineering teams around the world to deliver secure and distributed microservices to various cloud environments. You will participate in release cycles of watsonx Orchestrate, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments. You will need to be an expert in working with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and change management applications.
You must have a passion for examining how things work internally and excellent collaboration skills, since you will devise solutions to challenging problems in complex distributed systems with various teams.
Above all, we are looking for team members with a keen sense of ownership, resilience, and drive. If you like dynamic projects and enjoy being challenged, if you can make progress when faced with complex technical problem, if you enjoy moving fast (and you are not afraid of making a mistake or two on the way), then we are the perfect team for you!Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+ Years of experience in Performance Engineering role.
• Experience creating automated performance test scripts for enterprise cloud applications.
• Comprehensive knowledge of performance monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, loki, etc.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible etc.
• Expertise with Docker Orchestration and Docker Containerization using Kubernetes,

RedHat Openshift etc.

• Expertise with Linux operating systems (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu etc.).
• Working knowledge of installation and deployment of automation processes.
• Programming skills using languages such as Python or Javascript.
• Working knowledge in Shell Scripting/Bash.
• Familiarity with the integration of heterogenous services in a hybrid environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience of performance testing tools such as JMeter and k6.
• Experience of load, stress and scalability testing.
• Experience managing Linux systems in public cloud, such as IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure and management such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform, KVM, VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• General knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
• Knowledge of IBM Cloud Pak systems/tools

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:38:19 GMT

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