Lead -Backend Developer

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
What you will do (Roles & Responsibilities) :
The IBM Z Hyper Protect Servers team is seeking an experienced Backend Developer

As a Backend developer you will be part of a highly focused self-managed team that designs develops and tests secure solutions created for Z Systems workloads and applications.
Responsible for all aspects of management improvement and support of the microservice platform’s Linux based infrastructure. Provide feedback to architects regarding any issues that present themselves. Manage projects with various priority levels and timelines from start to finish.

Act as escalation point for internal support departments in resolving a wide variety of customer facing issues regarding environment deployment service issues and technical questions. Consistently meet deadlines for complex issues and new projects involving multiple teams.

Demonstrate best practices in all aspects of administration. Leverage various languages to build features based on an architectural design. Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services.

Continuously stay abreast of new developments in supported operating systems to ensure consistent compatibility with established infrastructure. Must collaborate with other departments to resolve complex issues and be detail oriented.
Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Up to 10 years of Working experience with Linux distributions (Ubuntu/RHEL) in a production environment
Programming Skills:

• GoLang
• Ansible / Terraform / Shell scripts for automation purposes
• Knowledge of working with REST API gRPC
• Strong knowledge of Containers (for eg. docker / Podman etc) & related technologies like container registries Dockerfiles

creating container images deploying containers

• Strong working knowledge of Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Strong knowledge of Linux basics including packing package managers working with system services distro specific

development

• Knowledge of working with Linux distros like Ubuntu
• Good knowledge of Virtualization like hypervisor Virtual Machines Bare Metal Partitions etc and infrastructure/system

management.

• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) – basic understanding of how code is built and deployed in a continuous

manner

• Strong Technical leadership skills (achieving excellence through code quality and practices architecture decisions innovation)

Domain Expertize :

• Knowledge of digital assets and how they work including blockchain / hyperledger fabric and similar frameworks.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• General understanding of private /public / hybrid cloud concepts
• General understanding of HW servers and server components like CPU / core/ memory/sockets / adapters
• Logging/Monitoring (basic understanding and application)