Senior Software Developer

IBM; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in the United States is seeking a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE to design and build automated cloud platforms that scale, secure, and reliably deliver end-to-end experiences for global customers.

You will implement IaC workflows with Terraform on AWS EKS, develop Go or Python tools, mentor engineers, and help uphold uptime SLAs of 99.95% while driving automation across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, building, and operating automated cloud infra.
• Expert in deploying and maintaining highly available Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
• Advanced Terraform IaC for multi-region architectures.
• Proficient in Go or Python to deliver self-healing tools.
• Strong focus on monitoring, disaster recovery, and uptime SLAs (≥ 99.95%).

Responsibilities

• Design Automation Solutions: build scripts and IaC for container orchestration and platform deployments.
• Build Automated Systems: develop cellular infrastructure models for enterprise customers.
• Improve Automation Strategies: implement self-healing loops and reduce manual toil.
• Deliver End-to-End Experiences: migrate legacy workloads to AWS EKS without customer interruption.
• Drive Business Outcomes: mentor engineers, contribute RFCs, and improve platform availability.

Skills

SRE & Automation

Kubernetes on AWS EKS

Terraform IaC

Go or Python

Monitoring & DR

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

AWS EKS

Vault

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE, you will design and build systems and tools that automate repetitive cloud operations and scaling processes to increase platform efficiency, security, and reliability. You will develop innovative platform solutions—including cells-parallelization and AWS EKS container orchestration—to drive business outcomes and deliver exceptional, highly resilient end-to-end product experiences for our global customers.

Your primary responsibilities will include:Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Automation Solutions: Develop scripts, programs, and finfrastructure-as-code frameworks for automating container orchestration (AWS EKS), secrets management (Vault), and platform deployments, focusing on increasing efficiency, reliability, and security.
• Build Automated Systems: Create automated cellular infrastructure partitioning models based on business scaling requirements, ensuring seamless, isolated workspace execution for enterprise customers.
• Improve Automation Strategies (Automation 2.0): Continuously assess and refine platform automation strategies—implementing self-healing alert loops and automated recovery to reduce manual on-call toil by 30% and optimize technical solutions.
• Deliver End-to-End Experiences: Care equally about business outcomes and technical solutions, focusing on migrating legacy Nomad workloads onto AWS EKS clusters without any customer interruption.
• Drive Business Outcomes: Lead the weekly CPE SRE on-call rotation, author RFCs, mentor 1-2 engineers, and conduct quality code reviews to improve platform availability (SLA ≥ 99.95%) and overall product quality.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in SRE & Automation Development: 6+ years of proven experience in designing, building, and operating systems and tools that automate repetitive cloud infrastructure tasks and processes.
• Experience with Container Orchestration: Deep expertise in developing, deploying, and maintaining highly available Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Web Services (AWS EKS).
• Strategic Automation Planning (Infrastructure as Code): Advanced experience in creating and refining automated infrastructure solutions utilizing HashiCorp Terraform, with the ability to optimize multi-region architectures.
• Technical Solution Implementation (Programming): Skilled in developing custom programs and frameworks in Go (golang) or Python to deliver end-to-end self-healing and operational tools.
• Business Outcome Optimization: Deep understanding of how SRE practices drive business results, with experience in monitoring, disaster recovery (DR) chaos testing, and maintaining strict uptime SLAs (≥ 99.95%).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced Scripting Knowledge: Experience with scripting languages and technologies relevant to automation, including the ability to develop complex scripts and programs for automating software development, testing, and deployment.
• Technical Solution Vision: Deep understanding of how automation solutions drive business results, with the ability to envision and implement technical solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and overall product quality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with multiple stakeholders to create automated solutions based on business requirements, with the ability to continuously assess and refine automation strategies to optimize business outcomes and technical solutions.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• - Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• - Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• - Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• - Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• - Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.