Cloud Infra Engineer — Golang & Kubernetes, PaaS

IBM; Winchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is hiring a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer to design, implement and run massive Golang-based infrastructure. You will work on Kubernetes operators delivering Confluent cloud foundations to our engineering teams.

You'll apply Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, and Linux skills and public cloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP) to ensure availability, performance and secure operation for tens of thousands of instances, shaping the platform's architecture.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience building and operating large‑scale systems.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc)
• A self‑starter with the ability to work effectively in teams.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed languages.
• Experience/knowledge with public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Golang infrastructure services (typically implemented as Kubernetes operators) to deliver the Confluent cloud foundations to the wider engineering organization.
• Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus and a strong command of Linux, public cloud and networking should come as standard - though Golang software engineering will be your primary focus.
• As a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the rest of the Confluent engineers to build our PaaS product.
• You, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud
• If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have a big influence on the architecture plus operational design points of this new product, then you will fit right in

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Prometheus

Linux

Networking

AWS

Azure

GCP

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Software is hiring a Confluent Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer to design, implement and run massive Golang-based infrastructure. You will work on Kubernetes operators delivering Confluent cloud foundations to our engineering teams.

You'll apply Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, and Linux skills and public cloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP) to ensure availability, performance and secure operation for tens of thousands of instances, shaping the platform's architecture.