We are looking for a developer highly interested in developing an innovative, future-oriented solution that automates and simplifies the installation, configuration and testing of Linux on Z systems.Your main duties will include design and implementation of new features, optimizing and maintaining existing code and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with the customers to ensure the software meets their needs.Step in and be part of IBM System Development Lab community, outstanding for its innovation and team spirit, offering one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.Engineers in our team work inside a highly agile development environment and are responsible for the full software development life cycle – ranging from designing and implementing of the new product features, testing for industry-leading quality assurance over to continuous product delivery as well as supporting our global customers. You should be thrilled by emerging technologies with our software products for future Mainframe and Cloud-based markets.What you will do Are you interested in developing automation tools and Open Source? Your favorite operating system is Linux? Would you like to be part of an Open Source community and do you intend to build up a reputation as an Open Source maintainer? Are you passionate about bringing in your expertise and developing your career in an International Agile development culture?If so, our team is the right place for you!Our Linux infrastructure automation development team is responsible for providing tools to automate the installation of Linux distributions. The tools manage relationships between Z datacenter resources and allocate them to specific projects and users according to a role-based schema and use HMC API to control LPARs, Terminal for z/VM and ssh for KVM-based installations.Further they support running Ansible playbooks on installed systems and include them into existing pipelines to be part of continuous release process. The automation tools enable developers and testers to effortlessly bring up their environments without necessitating a deep understanding of the IBM Z platform.
