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.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Start dates for this position are in 2025

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems for the IBM client business. In this role, you will lead the problem resolution process for our clients, from analysis and troubleshooting, to deploying workarounds or fixes.
Your primary responsibilities include:

• Deployment and Configuration: The process of installing Couchbase Enterprise software and configuring buckets for the offerings.
• Cluster Management and Troubleshooting: Activities involved in troubleshooting issues with clusters and determining appropriate hardware configuration for them.
• Security and Compliance Implementation: Implementing security measures such as setting up certificates and ensuring compliance with ITCS-104, ISO, SOC standards, and associated regulations.
• Maintenance and Support: Tasks related to applying Couchbase security patches and upgrades, supporting Cassandra and Mongo for pager duty rotation, and collaborating with Couchbase Product support for issue resolution.
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Availability and Flexibility: Willingness to work in shifts or support 24 x 7 coverage as per the business needs.
• Couchbase, Mongo, and Cassandra: Excellent knowledge of Couchbase, with a solid foundation in Mongo and Cassandra.
• Linux Proficiency: Exceptional knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Operation and Support Experience: Demonstrated experience in handling day-to-day operations, alert management, incident support, migration tasks, and break-fix support.
• Shell Scripting and Ansible Skills: Good knowledge of shell scripting and the Ansible configuration management tool.
  

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Kubernetes/Open Shift: Strongly preferred experience in working with production Kubernetes/Open Shift environments.
• Change Management Expertise: Experience with change management workflows.
• ELK/EFK Stack Familiarity: Experience with the ELK/EFK stack, which includes Elastic Search, Logstash/Fluentd, and Kibana.
• Distributed Event Streaming Platform Experience: Experience with platforms such as Kafka.
• SQL and No SQL Datastore Experience: Experience with SQL and/or No SQL datastores, including DB2 and Oracle data services.
• Application Load Balancing Concepts: including F5 and ELB.

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.

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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.
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Location Statement Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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