IBM Bangalore Hiring Power VS SRE Intern | ₹25,000/month

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professionals are engineers who focus on reliability and resiliency. They combine knowledge of software and systems to analyze business needs, determine problems, advise, design, build, test, deploy and maintain well-engineered information systems and ecosystems.

IBM is looking for automation-focused SREs to maintain and administer the PowerVS Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment and deliver a reliable, secure offering to clients. As a Compute Operations Site Reliability Engineer, you will:

• Remotely administer Power Server hardware across datacenter locations worldwide (currently 20 datacenters and growing).
• Build automation to reduce manual toil using shell scripts (bash, etc), Python, Ansible and related tools.
• Perform code stack updates on infrastructure systems (VIOS, firmware, PowerVC, HMC, Novalink, NIM servers) and cloud supporting systems (jump servers, sobox, network nodes, gateways, TSM servers).
• Upload and maintain stock images.
• Remotely administer AIX and Linux servers, including user ID and password maintenance.
• Monitor daily and weekly backups to confirm they are working.
• Manage and maintain the Nagios monitoring environment and troubleshoot scripts and plug-ins.
• Perform periodic Live Partition migrations, inactive migrations or remote restarts of customer VMs for maintenance, workload balancing or resource recovery.
• Monitor and report capacity utilized in each datacenter.
• Attend customer-scheduled meetings for cutover and maintenance windows.
• Verify capacity requirements when customers face provisioning failures.
• Work with customers to resolve RSCT issues so LPM activities do not affect customer workloads.
• Train new personnel on tooling and processes.

Required Skills

• In-depth knowledge of Power Server hardware and PowerVM, including installation, configuration and administration.
• Significant scripting or coding experience for automating IBM Power systems administration.
• Experience with AIX and Linux administration, commands and networking.
• Strong experience in one or more of VIO, Novalink and PowerVC, with familiarity in the others.
• High level knowledge of Power Systems supported operating systems (AIX and IBMi).
• In-depth knowledge of how storage is connected and allocated to Power systems via NPIV connections.
• Good understanding of Power Systems network configuration at the system level.
• Experience configuring and tuning PowerVC, and accessing PowerVS resources through IBM Cloud Portal, IBM Cloud CLI, APIs and Terraform.
• General support skills for storage, Power RTS, MVS network, and Cisco and Juniper networking.