IBM Cloud DevOps Specialist

IBM Middle East

Dubai, UAE

Ref: RP805-283

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Job Description

- Serve as a DevOps subject matter expert with DevOps Principles and Best Practices Support the Sales Teams, Architects, Business Partners with presales support for the IBM cloud DevOps Portfolio.
- Possesses skills in popular DevOps automation tools, can perform installation and configuration of these tools on cloud or non-cloud infrastructure.
- Understands the project and application context and accordingly configure the DevOps tools, setup continuous integration for automated and continuous builds, develop build script & versioning, build packaging and deployment on the server, and setup continuous testing.
- Has working experience in Test Automation, Performance testing, integration testing and test service virtualization
- Has knowledge of software engineering processes, coding (Java, Shell, Python), DevOps best practices, SDLC processes.
- Prepares gap analysis document and / or design a proposed DevOps adoption roadmap; use to analyze the clients' IT environment for achieving better efficiency using DevOps methodology and tools in conventional or Cloud environments. Architect the DevOps tooling infrastructure and define the interface requirements among the various tool sets.
- Analyzes the software build and deploy requirements for a project; portfolio or account and define the architecture using the necessary IBM and non-IBM software tools.
- Analyzes the software Deployment & Release requirements for a project; portfolio or account and design the deployment / release management strategy using the necessary IBM and non-IBM software tools like Rational uRelease.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 3+ yrs Experience with IBM Rational Suite of products
- 3+ yrs exp establishing CI/CD environments, using IBM and Non-IBM solution (Jenkins, maven, gradle, fastlane, shell scripts, git)
- 3+ yrs exp with testing automation tools preferably IBM or Opensource tools
- 3+ yrs exp with UrbanCode Deploy, UrbanCode Release and plugins
- 3+ yrs exp with Rational Testing Suite (Functional, Performance and Integration)
- 2+ yrs exp with Dockers and Kubernetes
- Good understating of Containerization - Docker/Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as code and configuration management - Puppet/Chef/Ansible
- Familiar with Agile Practices

EO Statement
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Preferred Education: Master's Degree Commissionable: No

Key Job Details

- Country: AE
- State: DUBAI
- City: DUBAI
- Category: Consultant
- Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Position Type: Professional
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Contract Type: Regular
- Location: DUBAI, DUBAI AE

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.

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