Our mission is to revolutionize digital labor by developing and deploying the latest conversational artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and speech technologies in IBM's industry-leading chatbot platform watsonx Orchestrate.
We believe in open architectures and open standards, and we run our cutting-edge AI on every cloud. We live and breathe Linux, Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift. We strive to create the most portable, scalable, and performant AI infrastructure.
If you share our passion, and you have experience with managing Linux systems in IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure, please consider this opportunity.
Your role and responsibilities
This position is for a Software Test Engineer in the hybrid cloud deployment team of IBM's watsonx Orchestrate service. Your primary responsibility will be management and automation of watsonx Orchestrate QA & Performance tests in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
Although this position is for cloud performance engineering, your responsibilities will span the entire lifecycle of multiple microservices, from technical design, development, testing to deployment and operations.
You will participate in customer calls and provide assistance to support team to help address technical issues.
You will be part of a small agile team, but you will interact with multiple other disciplines including Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and engineering teams around the world to deliver secure and distributed microservices to various cloud environments.
You will participate in release cycles of watsonx Orchestrate, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments.
You will need to be an expert in working with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and change management applications.
You must have a passion for examining how things work internally and excellent collaboration skills, since you will devise solutions to challenging problems in complex distributed systems with various teams.
Above all, we are looking for team members with a keen sense of ownership, resilience, and drive.
The ideal candidate will enjoy dynamic projects, being challenged, making progress when faced with complex technical problems, and moving fast.
Required technical and professional expertise
1. 4+ Years of experience in Performance Engineering and/or Quality Engineering role.
2. Experience in performance testing tools such as JMeter and k6.
3. Experience in load, stress and scalability testing.
4. Experience managing Linux systems in public cloud, such as IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
5. Knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure and management such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform, KVM, VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
6. General knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.