Cloud PoC Engineer with user interface and mobile application development skills

Job ID GTS-0614350 Job type Full-time Regular Work country USA Position type Professional Work city - Any, Posted 24-Oct-2013 Travel 10% travel annually Job area Software Development Business group Global Technology Services Job category Software Development & Support Business unit GTS HQ/Top Job role Software Developer Job role skillset Web Technologies Commissionable/Sales-Incentive jobs only No

Job description

IBM's SoftLayer public cloud customer enablement team is looking for a skilled software development engineer to be part of customer proof-of-concepts team, that show cases how the services can meet customer’s public cloud requirements. IBM’s public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering is based on IBM SoftLayer technology and provides a self-service secure and scalable hosted IT infrastructure with on-demand access to virtual and bare-metal servers, storage and network resources with a usage based payment model. You will apply your broad cloud knowledge and user interface development in skills to build prototypes and demo applications that highlight how the features and functions of IBM's SoftLayer platform can meet customer application requirements. In addition to your skills in mobile application development, you will additionally have expertise in IBM's SoftLayer public cloud platform. Core Responsibilities As a software development engineer within the Customer Enablement team, you will: Contribute your technical skills to conduct PoCs with customers to show them SoftLayer platform services can indeed meet their public cloud requirements Build sample applications (mobile or desktop) and prototypes that showcases how specific features within the SoftLayer platform can be used Have good knowledge of in IaaS concepts and solutions Have hands-on expertise in using the IBM SoftLayer services across the entire platform: compute, networking, storage, middleware and application services Be able to conduct presentations and demos highlighting the features and functions of SoftLayer platform at customer briefings and industry events. Write white papers on lessons learned and best practices Author and also assist in creating enablement instructional and information content highlighting how to use the SoftLayer services Work with team members across multiple time zones Collaborate with marketing teams to evangelize IBM SoftLayer offering capabilities on social media sites Needed skills: 2+ years experience in Cloud related projects 1+ years experience in building user interfaces using HTML5 or natively on iOS and Android platforms. 1+ years experience in Linux system administration including networking Desired Qualifications: Someone who strengths in writing code and building prototypes, demos and applications Development skills in one or more languages: Java, PHP, Ruby, Python Hands-on knowledge of OpenStack and KVM – strongly preferred Knowledge of SoftLayer platform Linux system administration: Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu Good knowledge and awareness of capabilities of at least one public cloud: Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Knowledge of automation frameworks: Chef and/or Puppet Knowledge of open source cloud-native technologies such as - Apache Cassandra, Cordova. NoSQL, Hadoop Knowledge of installing middleware softwares like: SpringSource, CloudFoundry, Cloudera Nice to have: Windows administration and automation skills While this job can be done from any city, the preferred location is San Jose, CA.

Required Bachelor's Degree At least 2 years experience in software development roles in the area of Internet applications in Java, Python, PHP, or Ruby Readiness to travel 10% travel annually English: Fluent

Preferred Master's Degree in Information Technology

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.