Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Go/Kubernetes)

IBM; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. The role focuses on building and operating scalable infrastructure for data streaming platforms, with responsibilities spanning design, deployment, and reliability.

You will collaborate across teams to enable secure, observable, and high-performance cloud services, with on-call rotation and a strong emphasis on automation and best practices.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree required.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java or Python.
• Deep understanding of systems internals and large-scale performance.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Expertise in automation and reliability practices: GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, powering the core platform.
• Own systems to keep cloud infrastructure secure, scalable, observable, and reliable using GitOps, Terraform, and monitoring tools.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to enable fast, safe deployment of services.
• Take responsibility for lifecycle: availability, performance, monitoring, incidents, capacity planning.
• Work at scale across many instances and regions with focus on smooth operations.
• Contribute to architecture and operational strategy for Confluent Cloud services; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. The role focuses on building and operating scalable infrastructure for data streaming platforms, with responsibilities spanning design, deployment, and reliability.

You will collaborate across teams to enable secure, observable, and high-performance cloud services, with on-call rotation and a strong emphasis on automation and best practices.