Software Developer

Introduction

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation, and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure that only IBM can provide.

Your ability to be creative, a forward-thinker and to focus on innovation that matters, is all support by our growth minded culture as we continue to drive career development across our teams. Collaboration is key to IBM Infrastructure success, as we bring together different business units and teams that balance their priorities in a way that best serves our client's needs.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

The CISO Cybersecurity Operations Platform (CSOP) team is looking to add an engineer to the
AI and Platform Development Team. The Platform provides the technology, services and
expertise required by IBM's Cyber Threat Detection and Response teams. We support the
Advanced Threat Detection (threat hunting, intelligence, incident response), Vulnerability
Detection and Response, Innovation and Remediation, Security Operations Centers and
Command Centers teams to deliver enterprise-wide security to one of the world's most
established technology companies. We process tens of billions of events per day, meaning
effective analysis and data exploitation practices are critical to our success.

This is a technical position within the Analytics and Data Exploitation team who employ commercial, open source
and in-house developed tools to deliver critical cybersecurity services such as event processing,
automation, complex analytics and support to digital investigations. This role operates across our
development, test, pre-production and production networks to create, maintain and improve our
services -an important component of which is fault-finding and the ability to work within
complex, dynamic environments.

In this role you will thrive in high-pressure situations and have practical experience working with
Big Data technologies -such as Spark, Hadoop and Elasticsearch. You will have proven,
practical knowledge of container orchestration technologies -specifically Kubernetes and RedHat
OpenShift. Your work will include the design and optimization of container-deployed systems, as
well as the day-to-day engineering and administration of the orchestration environment. This
includes cluster management, Pod assignment / configuration, application virtual routing,
security, container image registry management and optimization of the runtime engines. You will have
knowledge of data ingestion, extraction, transformation and loading technologies is important
including Streamsets and Flink. This role is rounded-out by some software development tasks
all related to cyber security. This will involve Java, SQL, Python and Powershell scripting so experience
with DevOps methods is highly advantageous. The Platform team employs hybrid cloud hosting
and this includes provisioning, administration, and management of services within environments
spanning IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Job Duties:

• Contribute to the day-to-day work that supports our critical cybersecurity analysis and
  data processing workflows.
• Design, manage and maintain parts of our container-hosting environments -specifically,
  the Kubernetes and OpenShift technologies.
• Familiarity with SQL, Powershell, Azure, and M365 suite a plus.
• Develop and maintain ingest pipelines with technologies like Streamsets and Flink.
• Work with end-users to understand their analysis needs and play an active role in
  implementing what is required to realize them.
• Support the team leadership to improve overall exploitation of technologies that best
  serve our requirements.
• Support fault-finding, problem determination and break-fix tasks.
• Work as part of a deeply technical, passionate team of engineers to tackle significant IT
  challenges.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• A minimum of 3+ years' experience in a big data role -such as operational analysis, data engineering, data science.
• Experience with container environments such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker
  Swarm.
• Practical experience programming in high-level languages such as Python, SQL, Java,
  C / C++, or similar.
• Experience with (or a proven aptitude for) working within a fast-paced environment
  where the success criteria are defined by external factors. This includes having to
  change course quickly, based on the evolving needs of a complex and dynamic
  environment.
• Experience with IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure or similar cloud environments.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• • Practical, applied knowledge of the Azure, M365 Suite, or Exchange with proven experience in using Powershell or Azure Cloud.
  • Direct experience with, or demonstrable aptitude for, Streamsets, Flink, or Steampipe.
  • Experience applying data science to practical problems: feature extraction, data
    representation, statistical analysis and visualization.
  • Experience with machine learning algorithms and techniques, including Skillet, watsonx.ai, or any other LLM's or open-source tools like n8n.
  • Experience with AI/ML capabilities, especially MCP design or backend development to support an agentic approach, is preferred.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 50 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.