Senior Terraform & AWS EKS SRE Automation Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE to design and build automation that scales cloud operations. You will create end-to-end platform solutions, focusing on AWS EKS orchestration, Vault for secrets, and IaC workflows to improve efficiency, security, and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive on-call improvements while migrating legacy Nomad workloads to AWS EKS with minimal customer impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, building, and operating automated cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise deploying Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
• Terraform IaC experience for multi-region architectures.
• Go or Python development for end-to-end tools.
• Experience with monitoring and disaster recovery and uptime SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Design automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code for container orchestration and security.
• Create automated cellular infrastructure models for enterprise workloads.
• Refine automation strategies with self-healing alerts and recovery.
• Migrate legacy Nomad workloads to AWS EKS without customer impact.
• Lead on-call rotation, write RFCs, mentor engineers, perform code reviews.

Skills

SRE & Automation

Kubernetes AWS EKS

Terraform

Go Python

Tools

Vault

Nomad

AWS EKS

Job description

IBM in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE to design and build automation that scales cloud operations. You will create end-to-end platform solutions, focusing on AWS EKS orchestration, Vault for secrets, and IaC workflows to improve efficiency, security, and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive on-call improvements while migrating legacy Nomad workloads to AWS EKS with minimal customer impact.