**Introduction** The Cloud System Development team is a team dedicated to ensuring that the IBM Cloud is at the forefront of cloud technology, from data center design to network architecture to storage and compute clusters to flexible infrastructure services. We are building IBM's next generation cloud platform to deliver performance and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale with efficiency, resiliency and security. It is an exciting time, and as a team we are driven by this incredible opportunity to thrill our clients. **Your role and responsibilities** As a part of cloud engineering service team, Individuals will be responsible for delivering infrastructure services with top-notch performance, first-rate security, fail-safe reliability and exceptional quality. Will be responsible for creating reusable and parameterized configurations for spot instance profiles. Leverage load balancers or caching layers to reduce downtime during instance replacements. Also Automate failover to on-demand instances when spot capacity is unavailable. **Required technical and professional expertise** • 11 to 14 years industry experience with proven deep knowledge of Golang/C/C++(Golang preferred). • Programming experience in object-oriented design principles and patterns, with solid knowledge of REST and gRPC. • Experience with data modeling and API design. • Strong knowledge of data structures. • Hands-on experience implementing distributed applications in a container environment (Docker/Kubernetes) along with considerable experience configuring and administrating Linux (or UNIX) systems. • Strong experience working in large distributed microservice architectures. • Experience in building tests for gRPC, RESTful APIs and SOAP webservices. • Experience with relational databases and SQL (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), also non-relational e.g. ETCD a plus. • Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD & DevOps • Ability to script in shell or python when required. • Experience in large systems software design and development. • Demonstrated experience leading a team of junior developers and driving technical delivery. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Familiarity with virtualization (KVM/QEMU/libvirt a plus). • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) preferred. • Understanding security and compliance issues. • MS in Computer Science preferred. Can consider non-CS degrees if there is strong relevant experience.