Production Engineer

implement, and operate highly available and efficient systems that power mission-critical applications. Your expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems will be key in driving reliability, automation, and operational excellence to deliver a seamless experience for our customers and internal teams.

What you will do:

● Ensure platform reliability and performance: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems running on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).

● Automate operations: Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and incident response.

● Incident response & on-call support: Participate in on-call rotations to quickly detect, mitigate, and resolve production incidents.

● Kubernetes upgrades & management: Own and drive Kubernetes version upgrades, node pool scaling, and security patches.

● Observability & monitoring: Implement and refine observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, Victoria Metric etc.) for proactive monitoring and alerting.

● Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests.

● CI/CD & release automation: Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and related tooling to streamline application delivery and platform updates.

● Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with developers, SREs, and other teams to improve platform stability.

● Performance tuning: Analyze and optimize cloud and containerized workloads for cost efficiency and high availability.

● Security & compliance: Ensure platform security best practices, incident response, and compliance adherence.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

● 7-9 years of relevant experience

● Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) and container orchestration.

● Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, particularly in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.

● Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

● Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.

● Experience with monitoring & logging tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics, etc.).

● Hands-on experience with automation & scripting (Python, Go, Bash).

● Experience in incident management & debugging complex distributed systems.

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.

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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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