Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Go/Kubernetes)

IBM; Armonk (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is hiring to help power Confluent-based cloud streaming infrastructure. You will design and evolve infrastructure services in Go and Kubernetes, focusing on secure, scalable, observable systems across public clouds.

Join a team driving data streaming at scale and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Ideal candidates have strong programming skills (Go/Java/Python), deep systems knowledge, and hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills across Go, Java, or Python with deep systems knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Expertise in automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services in Go, often as Kubernetes operators.
• Own cloud infrastucture to be secure, scalable, observable, and reliable using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Linux fundamentals.
• Collaborate with engineers to enable fast, safe, autonomous deployment of services via shared tooling and best practices.
• Take shared responsibility for availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Work at scale across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions with smooth operations.
• Influence architecture and operational strategy for Confluent's cloud services.
• Participate in an 8‑hour, follow‑the‑sun on‑call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Linux systems

Kubernetes

Public cloud

GitOps

Observability

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

GitOps

Linux

Job description

IBM Software is hiring to help power Confluent-based cloud streaming infrastructure. You will design and evolve infrastructure services in Go and Kubernetes, focusing on secure, scalable, observable systems across public clouds.

Join a team driving data streaming at scale and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation. Ideal candidates have strong programming skills (Go/Java/Python), deep systems knowledge, and hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.