Senior Cloud-Native Platform Engineer (Go/Kubernetes)

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

Job summary

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure that powers the Confluent-based data streaming ecosystem, collaborating across global teams.

The role emphasizes Go/Java/Python coding, Kubernetes production experience, and strong automation with GitOps, Terraform, and CI/CD in a distributed environment, with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python and understanding of large-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and cloud-native ecosystems (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proficiency in automation, GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, powering the core platform.
• Own systems that are secure, scalable, observable, and reliable using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Linux/networking fundamentals.
• Collaborate with engineers to enable fast, safe, autonomous deployment of services via shared platform tooling and best practices.
• Take shared responsibility for full lifecycle of infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Work on systems at scale across thousands of instances and multiple regions with focus on smooth, fast operations.
• Influence architecture and operational strategy behind critical infrastructure supporting cloud services; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Linux internals

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

IBM Software is transforming client challenges into AI-powered, cloud-native solutions. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure that powers the Confluent-based data streaming ecosystem, collaborating across global teams.

The role emphasizes Go/Java/Python coding, Kubernetes production experience, and strong automation with GitOps, Terraform, and CI/CD in a distributed environment, with on-call responsibilities.