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Job Details
Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
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.
This role is closely aligned to the Hashicorp Cloud Platform offering, and this team owns the core engine-the standardized compute, networking, security controls, and base operational services-that all product teams build upon. Our mission is to provide an opinionated, highly reliable, and secure environment that standardizes infrastructure operations across our multi-cloud footprint.
We leverage a product-minded approach to infrastructure, ensuring tight feedback loops with our product development teams, security, and compliance to make sure the foundation is always ahead of product needs.
Your role and responsibilities
You can expect to:
Role and Responsibilities
This is an Engineering Manager role leading a high-impact team of talented, senior engineers responsible for the most fundamental pieces of our cloud platform. The ideal candidate is passionate about people leadership, technical execution, and driving operational excellence as a core feature. You will be instrumental in translating the long-term vision into actionable, incremental delivery.
You will use your experience to invest deeply in the growth and development of your engineers, leveraging their technical strengths while coaching them on project leadership and cross-functional collaboration. You will be the primary advocate for the team, balancing immediate operational needs with necessary strategic development time.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Preferred technical and professional experience
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
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.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
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.
This role is closely aligned to the Hashicorp Cloud Platform offering, and this team owns the core engine-the standardized compute, networking, security controls, and base operational services-that all product teams build upon. Our mission is to provide an opinionated, highly reliable, and secure environment that standardizes infrastructure operations across our multi-cloud footprint.
We leverage a product-minded approach to infrastructure, ensuring tight feedback loops with our product development teams, security, and compliance to make sure the foundation is always ahead of product needs.
Your role and responsibilities
You can expect to:
- People Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, hire, and mentor a team of Infrastructure and Software Engineers, providing regular 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and detailed career development plans.
- Technical Accountability: Partner with Staff/Principal Engineers to review architecture proposals, ensure adherence to engineering standards, and maintain code quality and service performance across the runtime environment.
- Operational Health Ownership: Be accountable for the reliability and uptime of the Runtime platform. This includes managing and improving the on-call rotation, overseeing incident response protocols, and driving down mean time to recovery (MTTR).
- Cost and Resource Optimization: Monitor runtime resource consumption and actively lead efforts within the team to identify, plan, and execute cost-saving optimizations without compromising security or reliability.
- Process Improvement: Continuously refine engineering processes (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, deployment safety) to increase the team's development velocity and efficiency.
Role and Responsibilities
This is an Engineering Manager role leading a high-impact team of talented, senior engineers responsible for the most fundamental pieces of our cloud platform. The ideal candidate is passionate about people leadership, technical execution, and driving operational excellence as a core feature. You will be instrumental in translating the long-term vision into actionable, incremental delivery.
You will use your experience to invest deeply in the growth and development of your engineers, leveraging their technical strengths while coaching them on project leadership and cross-functional collaboration. You will be the primary advocate for the team, balancing immediate operational needs with necessary strategic development time.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Solid professional management experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE, with a focus on cloud-native systems.
- Deep practical expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and strong working experience with tools like Terraform.
- Proven ability to manage operational health and reliability-this includes experience with incident management, post-mortems, and setting and meeting Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Transformation Leadership: Experience leading organizational or process change (e.g., migrating major systems, adopting new SRE standards) and effectively guiding a team through significant technical shifts.
- Prior experience operating multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud infrastructure at scale.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with container orchestration systems at scale
- Experience guiding teams through compliance processes or operating in heavily regulated environments (e.g., SOC 2, FedRAMP).
- Proven ability to proactively engage with non-technical and executive stakeholders to gather requirements, manage competing priorities, and negotiate scope for complex, long-running infrastructure programs.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
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.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
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