**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages. IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. **Your role and responsibilities** Your Role and Responsibilities Data and AI Development team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Backend Development Engineer with Ansible Operator expertise to join us. Our services belong to Match360 product portfolio. Our services are tightly integrated with IBM Cloud Pak for Data where customers can access a suite of leading data and AI capabilities in a unified experience. You are a Backend Developer, who will Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex product components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms. As an ambitious individual who can work under senior architect’s direction towards agreed targets and goals, you have the ability to manage change and to work under stress. You are curious to learn as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team. Job Responsibilities: As a Backend developer you will be responsible for development/ maintenance/ Support of the Match360 applications through the full systems development lifecycle. Participate in the design and implementation of sophisticated software systems You will work with the Product Architects, Product Managers to understand various priorities and work towards the execution. Participate in software design and code reviews. Reviews include other Software Engineers and are held to ensure a high level of software quality and to share knowledge with team members. Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub. Ensure good code coverage. Support bug fixes during testing and deploy to target environments. Participate in the planning, creation and execution of automated test cases and load/performance testing. Create/maintain technical documentation. Hands on experience in handling and debugging customer issues, work with L2 support team. Maintain a high level of proficiency with Computer Science/Software Engineering knowledge and contribute to the technical skills growth of other team members. You will be providing vigilance and compliance to various software engineering, support and release processes e.g security, stack upgrades that are free of vulnerabilities etc. **Required technical and professional expertise** 5-10 years of professional/industrial experience in software development. Expertise with Core Java, Java J2EE, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible ( playbook & development ), MicroServices Architecture, Python, Shell Scripting, Ruby, GoLang etc. using Ansible Operator Proficiency in container-based deployment using OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud etc. Working knowledge of system architecture, network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP etc. Working knowledge of database technologies such as SQL or NoSQL, GraphDB's. Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc. Experience in building secure, robust, scalable and maintainable software and is open to learn open source tools and automating processes. Working knowledge on tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle. Understanding and experience with Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.). Understanding and experience with DevOps, Agile, and Design/Implementation within CI/CD and Secure Software Engineering Best Practices. Understanding and experience writing and executing Unit and Integration Tests as part of Test Driven DevOps Development. Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. Strong sense of ownership of deliverables. **Preferred technical and professional experience** Strong sense of ownership of deliverables. Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. An authority on Cloud Native Application architecture, Docker's and Microservices. Working experience on Docker/Kubernetes, the DevOps, Micro services. Worked on building automation test frameworks.