Backend developer

Your Role and Responsibilities Who are you :
The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe is looking for a talented, innovative and enthusiastic Software engineering professional that will build the next generation IAAS to make our customers succeed. The IBM Cloud Networking Tribe has a global cloud presence that continues to grow and expand its reach. Our Network Services engineering team is responsible for delivering virtual network services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality.

An IBM Cloud Networking Software Development engineer will be the key individual responsible for end to end feature enablement across the orchestration layer. You will perform hands-on coding and mentor junior developers, working to increase the knowledge and performance of the collective team. In addition, you will interface with senior architects across several locations to ensure that the overall strategy is communicated and understood.

We are a global team, so communication skills (both verbal and written) are critical as well as flexibility to work with team members in other time zones.
What you will do:

Understand product vision and business needs to define product requirements and product architectural solutions.

Use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product

Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards

Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team

Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.

Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications

Provide support for production escalations and problem resolution for customers.

Analyse requirements, design develop & maintain software products in alignment with the technology strategy of the organization

Participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code and other artifacts. Ensure commitments are agreed, reviewed and met.

Learn new skills and adopt new practices readily in order to develop innovative and cutting-edge software products that maintain Company's technical leadership position.

Plan, develop and manage the infrastructure to enable strategic and effective use of tools.

Lead the evaluation/evolution of tools/technologies/programs with input from internal teams, external developers.

Proactively identifying issues and improvement opportunities.

Directing resources to diagnose and resolve complex system, application software, security and related problems that impact system and availability.

How we'll help you grow:
You'll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be.
You'll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our SME's love to mentor.
You will have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Requires 8-10 years of experience.

Experience in Python and C or GoLang

REST API

Microservices - Kubernetes

System Design capabilities

Good understanding of Network Routing Protocols

Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud and Cloud Network

Experience in building, architecting, designing/implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.

Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn, understand and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions in Cloud technology space.

Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally. Ability to engage /influence audiences and identity expansion engagements.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Networking protocol knowledge ( TCPIP, IPTABLES, ROUTING MODELS )

Cloud Concepts- VPC, Subnet, Floating Ips