Hybrid OpenShift Engineer — Linux, Kubernetes & Open Source

International Business Machines Corporation; Munster; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM in Waterford, Ireland, is expanding its Open Source development team working on OpenShift Virtualization for Z. The role focuses on designing features, implementing them, and contributing to upstream communities while collaborating across CI/CD and DevOps practices.

You will work onsite part of the week (hybrid) with emphasis on Go and Bash, container tech, and performance analysis to deliver robust software for IBM customers and the broader Linux ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong desire to work on containers related software development within the Linux operating system (Go and Bash scripting).
• Interest in joining open source development communities (KubeVirt and Kubernetes).
• Understanding of operating system interfaces (network cards, storage systems).
• Experience with source code repositories (Git), scripting and programming languages (Bash, Go) and test automation (Jenkins).
• Knowledge of performance metrics gathering is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and specify new features and implementations for Open Source projects.
• Identify bugs, perform fixes, and analyze performance metrics.
• Submit code to upstream Open Source repositories and collaborate with the community.
• Resolve client problems and contribute to DevOps/CI/CD practices.

Skills

Go programming

Bash scripting

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Open source participation

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM in Waterford, Ireland, is expanding its Open Source development team working on OpenShift Virtualization for Z. The role focuses on designing features, implementing them, and contributing to upstream communities while collaborating across CI/CD and DevOps practices.

You will work onsite part of the week (hybrid) with emphasis on Go and Bash, container tech, and performance analysis to deliver robust software for IBM customers and the broader Linux ecosystem.