Junior Site Reliability Engineer — Enterprise IT & Automation

IBM; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Rochester, Minnesota is seeking an IT Administrator early professional to join the Site Reliability Engineering-focused team. You will gain hands-on experience in enterprise IT systems management, supporting servers, VMs, and cloud environments while contributing to automation and reliability initiatives.

The role emphasizes learning SRE principles, collaboration with cross-functional teams, incident response participation, and documentation of configurations and metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Networking or equivalent required.
• Fundamental OS knowledge (Linux/Unix/Windows/z/OS) and networking basics.
• Scripting familiarity with Python or Bash.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise IT systems including servers, VMs, and cloud environments.
• Monitor performance and help identify reliability issues.
• Assist automation of routine tasks via scripting.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident analyses.
• Document configurations, procedures, and reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on infra delivery.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Automation tools

Cloud & virtualization basics

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (CS/IT/NET Eng or related)

Master’s Degree

Tools

Ansible

Git

CI/CD concepts

Netbox

Cloud platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure)

Job description

IBM Rochester, Minnesota is seeking an IT Administrator early professional to join the Site Reliability Engineering-focused team. You will gain hands-on experience in enterprise IT systems management, supporting servers, VMs, and cloud environments while contributing to automation and reliability initiatives.

The role emphasizes learning SRE principles, collaboration with cross-functional teams, incident response participation, and documentation of configurations and metrics.