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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.

• Ensure platform reliability and performance: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems running on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Automate operations: Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and incident response.
• Incident response & on-call support: Participate in on-call rotations to quickly detect, mitigate, and resolve production incidents.
• Kubernetes upgrades & management: Own and drive Kubernetes version upgrades, node pool scaling, and security patches.
• Observability & monitoring: Implement and refine observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.) for proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with developers, DBPEs (Database Production Engineers), SREs, and other teams to improve platform stability.
• Performance tuning: Analyze and optimize cloud and containerized workloads for cost efficiency and high availability.
• Security & compliance: Ensure platform security best practices, incident response, and compliance adherence.

High School Diploma/GED

Master's Degree

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) and container orchestration.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, particularly in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring & logging tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with automation & scripting (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Experience in incident management & debugging complex distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.

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.

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.

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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.

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Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Production Developer

Job ID

78812

City / Township / Village

Markham

State / Province

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?