Cloud Control Plane Engineer: Kubernetes & Infra

IBM; Winchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, to design and implement a distributed control plane for Confluent Cloud offerings. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment with autonomy to ship and operate code.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and on-call support, with emphasis on learning and contributing across the platform. This is a hands-on opportunity to build scalable infrastructure and contribute to cutting-edge cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems.
• Experience with one or more programming languages: Go, C++, Java, or Python.
• Experience in a full project lifecycle from zero lines of code to operating, observing and supporting a product on call.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Delve deep into the Kubernetes framework; collaborate with internal contributors.
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform and internal tooling; deploy changes with Helm.
• Thrive in a fast-paced Scrum environment with DevOps principles; ship, operate and support code post-release.

Skills

Software design

Distributed systems

Go

C++

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane, to design and implement a distributed control plane for Confluent Cloud offerings. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment with autonomy to ship and operate code.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and on-call support, with emphasis on learning and contributing across the platform. This is a hands-on opportunity to build scalable infrastructure and contribute to cutting-edge cloud-native solutions.