OpenShift Engineer

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

Introduction

Are you interested in developing and contributing to Open Source? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Is your favourite OS Linux based and you enjoy in depth programming? If so, our team is the right place for you! We are expanding our IBM development team in Waterford. The team is responsible for enhancing Openshift Virtualization for Z. This includes device drivers, storage, networking and container orchestration, with tests and devops(CI/CD).

Your role and responsibilities

As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences. Your responsibilities will include the design and specifications for new features, implementation of the design, identifying and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream open source community repositories, and solving client problems. This position requires working onsite 3 days per week.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong desire to work on containers related software development within the Linux operating (Go and bash script)
• Interested in joining open source development communities (kubevirt and kubernetes)
• Understanding of operating systems interfaces (e.g. network cards, storage systems)
• Understanding of performance metrics gathering
• Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting and programming languages (e.g. Bash and Go) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Any previous contributions to Open Source projects Skills in current Linux containers (kubernetes or kubevirt) would be ideal
• Any skills in Linux on IBM Z
• Experience in Go programming language and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
• Understanding of operating systems interfaces (e.g. network cards, storage systems)
• Experience in performance metrics gathering

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.