Introduction We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join the IBM Watson Media Infrastructure team and help us maintain and improve the key aspects of our leading SaaS video streaming platform. As an Infrastructure Engineer at IBM Watson Media, you will maintain and continuously develop the infrastructure which contains thousands of machines and services in 30 data centers, petabytes of video data, and serves millions of viewers and broadcasters all over the world. The infrastructure workload is spread across multi-cloud providers, consisting of virtual machines, bare-metal servers, and Kubernetes clusters, the latter amounting to 30% and growing. We strongly believe in automation to allow our engineer focus on the most critical and impactful work. We expect everyone in the team to continuosly look for ideas to continuously improve our tools and methods to make our systems to be more robust, scalable, and easier to maintain. Your Role and Responsibilities Designing, developing, and maintaining IBM's video streaming solutions infrastructure and cooperating with the related development teams Evaluating open source projects, applications, and solutions, adopting them into the current infrastructure Provide on-call duty for the supported systems Design, build and implement solutions through DevOps methodologies Continuously improving the systems monitoring Develop and deploy changes via infrastructure as code Collaborating in cross-team projects As part of the team, you will provide code reviews to the other team members Modernize legacy systems to container-based solutions Ensure to comply with the industry standards and regulations Required Technical and Professional Expertise Keep yourself up-to-date and improve yourself continuously Being social and a team player Being able to work independently, making decisions and discussing them with the team Having at least 2-3 years of infrastructure or DevOps experience Reading and writing in English Aware of Cloud-Based services and solutions (eg. IBM Cloud, AWS) Proficient in at least one Linux distribution system administration (Ubuntu preferred) Possessing a DevOps mindset: you feel responsible for both the operation and the code developed by the team Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise We embrace T-shaped engineering skills. The more these apply to you, the better. Working experience with configuration management systems (eg. Chef, Ansible) and infrastructure as code systems (eg. Terraform, CloudFormation) Experience with Docker and container orchestration solutions (eg. Kubernetes) and Helm Familiar with at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Ruby, Bash Being familiar with some of the following Hashicorp products (eg. Terraform, Consul, Vault) Understanding and using Continuous Integration (CI) systems (eg. Jenkins, Gitlab CI) Experience in managing high availability (eg. Keepalived, ALB, Elastic IP, DNS Load Balancer) Experience in monitoring systems (eg. Prometheus, Nagios/Icinga) Familiar with some of these: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, MySQL/RDS, RabbitMQ, LDAP, OpenVPN Experience with CDN providers (eg. Akamai, Fastly) Network knowledge and experience (eg. L2/L3, CIDR, ARP, 802.1q, IPtables, Calico, FRRouting) Understand how the SSL certificates work (eg. RSA, X.509, CA, OCSP, Let's Encrypt) Being able to troubleshoot problems in unfamiliar environments Technical documentation writing skills About Business Unit IBM Watson Media is the leading Live Video Streaming, AI and Video Hosting Solution for businesses. Our comprehensive video streaming platform is built for scale and reliability, to optimize video quality and workflow, and powered by IBM Watson AI for video search and automated closed captioning. Our products are used by thousands of enterprises, service providers, educators, and media companies worldwide from startups to Fortune 500 companies like Salesforce, Pinterest, SONY, Mazda, Herman Miller and Roland. 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