Job Description

Introduction
At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
This role is one of a team of senior engineers leading our India-based Cloud Platform Services team. From Core Platform and Visibility to Identity/IAM and cloud-based Billing services, Cloud Platform Services (CPS) is responsible for delivering the Platform as a Service (PaaS) backbone of the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).
This is an opportunity to lead at a high-visibility, high-impact company. Millions of engineers and operators globally rely on HashiCorp products every day to predictably and reliably deliver infrastructure and platform capabilities for their businesses.
Your role and responsibilities

• Working fully-aligned with our global Core Platform Services (CPS) teams, develop next-generation cloud platform services for HashiCorp Cloud Platform.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Design to enforce best practices for measurable quality and value within the platform.
• Program primarily in Golang (Golang experience is not required), learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills.
• Cultivate excellence in the reliability, scalability, security, and craft of the software our teams build.
• Develop modern operationalization via tooling and automation capabilities for proactively monitoring and managing the customer experiences (Critical User Journeys).
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the Cloud Platform Services and broader Engineering, Product, and Design organizations.
• Present insights and recommendations to drive data-guided decision-making.
• Contribute to company-wide initiatives led by our Engineering, Product, and Design management, recruitment, and people teams.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering with experience with large-scale cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP), including CICD-driven software development, testing, and release management.
• 4+ years of experience developing and supporting platform and product/application services as part of a modern PaaS offering.
• 3+ years working with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Strong functional knowledge of containers, container management, and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of automation, automation principles, and different aspects of pipelines and automation delivery.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud security fundamentals, including patch management and secure configurations, with preferred experience in regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment/delivery) techniques and technologies.
• Strong cross functional collaboration and influencing skills, including the ability to influence with and without formal authority.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Understanding and familiarity with HashiCorp's products, specifically Terraform, Nomad, Vault and Consul.
• 3+ years experience in modern IAM (Identity and Access Management) feature/function and enabling platform services.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience and are proficient in at least one frontend programming language (TypeScript, JavaScript).
• Advanced strategic capability with cloud delivery models.
• Agile/Scrum background for projects and project delivery.
• Deep understanding of advanced security segmentation and controls.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
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.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
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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Job Title
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Services
Job ID
81238
City / Township / Village
BANGALORE
State / Province
Karnataka
Country
India
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Software Engineering
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No

Skills Required