Job Information
IBM Platform Engineer 1 in San Jose, California
Introduction
The Platform and Reliability Engineering (PRE) team at Apptio is responsible for enhancing and maintaining our IDP and driving the adoption of platform best practices across our engineering teams. We are a distributed team working across three locations including the United States, Poland and Australia.
In this role, you will be part of the team building and supports the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) where all Apptio applications are deployed. In a typical day you will interact with Github, Linux, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, Confluence, Jira, Slack, and AWS.
Your role and responsibilities
You Are
Passionate about problem solving and have experience developing platform features designed to improve the developer experience here in Apptio + IBM. Your team can count on you to solve challenging problems across the entire Apptio portfolio. You collaborate with other Platform Engineers, developers, and support teams to help provide value to the broader organization. You take responsibility when fixing problems in an automated code first way and are happy to step outside your comfort zone to develop your skillset.
You Aren’t
A Kubernetes or cloud expert with many years of experience. This is an intermediate position; we want you to help us, and we also want to help you grow.
Responsibilities
Develop self service features and services specifically designed to improve developer velocity
Manage deployments of Apptio services via ArgoCD
Streamline the CI process via Github actions and create resuable templates for our developers consumption
Improve observability of the services within your purview by reviewing KPI dashboards and alerting
Author and maintain documentation of deployment and monitoring processes
Use run-books to troubleshoot and triage production issues
Detect issues and handle Tier 1-2 troubleshooting
Participate in online "swarm" collaboration sessions
Collaborate with Apptio product developers
Participate in on-call rotation
Perform maintenance of the platform (patching, resets, upgrades, etc.)
Required technical and professional expertise
'- 1-2 years’ experience in an Platform Development, DevOps, SRE or adjacent role
Foundational understanding of at least one programming language and source control (Preferably Golang)
Experience with distributed application deployment and management
Experience with container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Experience with Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) concepts
Experience with cloud provider services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Familiarity with RESTful systems and their APIs
Desire working with a remote team
Fluent English language skills
Preferred technical and professional experience
Experience with an Internal Developer Platform
Experience with CNCF products such as Cillium, Karpenter and a good knowledge of the CNCF landscape
Experience with the Hashicorp product suite (Vault, Terraform, Consul etc)
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