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Introduction

We are seeking a skilled Senior Cloud Architect to join our IBM MQ Software as a Service development team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for architecting, building, testing and maintaining a SaaS service on a variety of hyperscalers. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud technologies such as scalable infrastructure, networking, container orchestration, continuous integration, and access management. You will be responsible for designing solutions and leading teams to deliver new features into the service, maintaining and enhancing our continuous integration and deployment pipelines, and ensuring the smooth operation of our services. The role requires a good level of personal organisation and the ability to work well within a distributed global team in a fast-paced and exciting environment.

The MQ SaaS team employs agile development practices with all team members actively engaged in the planning, development, testing and usability-related tasks owned and delivered by their ‘Delivery Team’. Preferred candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated team players who have cloud software skills/experience and demonstrate a genuine desire and aptitude to perform the multi-disciplinary activities inherent in a DevOps role. Knowledge of continuous delivery techniques is important to ensure the stability of a live service. Successful candidates will be proficient in Agile Delivery practices and passionate about leading teams to deliver on their objectives and sprint goals. The work performed will have a high degree of technical content, is diverse and challenging yet always rewarding. If you love technology, a technical challenge, being part of a successful team and want to make a difference to how global business meets the demands of moving data around the world quickly, securely and reliably then MQ SaaS is for you.

Your role and responsibilities

Successful candidates will have a strong background in cloud engineering and knowledge of full-stack development, including but not limited to Feature Design, Development, Testing and Customer Support.

Candidates should also be comfortable working as part of a global team and possess good verbal & written communication skills. A successful individual for this role should possess:

• A strong understanding of cloud technologies including networking, security and scalability

• Strong analytical and problem-solving expertise, with the ability to investigate the adoption of new technologies and create architectural designs

• Experience in applying Cloud Engineering practices to enable Continuous Delivery.

• Ability to take ownership of features and customer requirements, proactively driving them to their completion.

• Experience in monitoring and alerting.

**Please note - This position requires working onsite a minimum of 3 days per week at our Dublin location.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong understanding of Cloud service architectures to meet scaling, resilience and security requirements

• Technical expertise in building, deploying and running applications in a Cloud environment such as AWS, IBM cloud, Azure

• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container orchestration

• Familiarity with Docker, Istio, and other container technologies.

• Management of version control and collaboration using Git and GitHub

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 5+ years experience in cloud engineering

• Experience of architecting solutions for cloud offerings to meet a high service level agreement

• Experience of working directly with customers to understand their requirements and resolve technical challenges

• Confident with working across multiple teams to drive delivery of complex solutions

• Proficient in agile development methodologies and tools

• Development skill in Golang to deliver robust scalable solutions.

• Knowledge of terraform to provision and manage infrastructure

• Experience leading teams in an agile environment

• Experience in owning and driving business outcomes