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Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

The CISO Cybersecurity Operations Platform (CSOP) team is looking to add an engineer to the

Analytics and Data Exploitation team. The Platform provides the technology, services and

expertise required by IBM’s Cyber Threat Detection and Response teams. We support the

Advanced Threat Detection (threat hunting, intelligence, incident response), Vulnerability

Detection and Response, Innovation and Remediation, Security Operations Centers and

Command Centers teams to deliver enterprise-wide security to one of the world’s most

established technology companies. We process tens of billions of events per day, meaning

effective analysis and data exploitation practices are critical to our success. This is a technical

position within the Analytics and Data Exploitation team who employ commercial, open source

and in-house developed tools to deliver critical cybersecurity services such as event processing,

automation, complex analytics and support to digital investigations. This role operates across our

development, test, pre-production and production networks to create, maintain and improve our

services -an important component of which is fault-finding and the ability to work within

complex, dynamic environments.

The right candidate thrives in high-pressure situations and has practical experience working with

Big Data technologies -such as Spark, Hadoop and Elasticsearch. The role requires a proven,

practical knowledge of container orchestration technologies -specifically Kubernetes and RedHat

OpenShift. The work will include the design and optimization of container-deployed systems, as

well as the day-to-day engineering and administration of the orchestration environment. This

includes cluster management, Pod assignment / configuration, application virtual routing,

security, container image registry management and optimization of the runtime engines. Wider

knowledge of data ingestion, extraction, transformation and loading technologies is important -

including Streamsets and Flink. The role is rounded-out by some software development tasks -

all related to cyber security. These will involve Java, SQL, Python and automation scripting so experience with DevSecOps methods is highly advantageous. The Platform team employs hybrid cloud hosting and this includes provisioning, administration and management of services within environments spanning IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Job Duties:

• Contribute to the day-to-day work that supports our critical cybersecurity analysis and

data processing workflows

• Design, manage and maintain parts of our container-hosting environments -specifically,

the Kubernetes and OpenShift technologies

• Familiarity with SQL, Powershell, Azure, and M365 suite a plus

• Develop and maintain ingest pipelines with technologies like Streamsets and Flink

• Work with end-users to understand their analysis needs and play an active role in

implementing what is required to realize them

• Support the team leadership to improve overall exploitation of technologies that best

serve our requirements

• Support fault-finding, problem determination and break-fix tasks

Work as part of a deeply technical, passionate team of engineers to tackle significant IT

challenges

Required technical and professional expertise

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 or more years’ experience in a big data role -such as operational analysis, data engineering, data science or data engineering

• Experience with container environments -such as Kubernetes and OpenShift

• Practical experience programming in high-level languages such as Python, SQL, Java,

C / C++, R or similar to support automation intiatives

• Experience with (or a proven aptitude for) working within a fast-paced environment

where the success criteria are defined by external factors. This includes having to

change course quickly, based on the evolving needs of a complex and dynamic

environment

• Strong experience with DevSecOps practices and technical deployments

• Experience with IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure or similar cloud environments

• Practical, applied knowledge of the AWS security suite, automation tooling, runbook automation, and configuration as code

• Direct experience with, or demonstrable aptitude for, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GHE/GitLab

• GitOps experience, a plus

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred skills:

• Networking in AWS with experience of VPC, Firewall, Security Groups, transit / NAT/Internet gateways.

• AWS certification

• OpenShift Kubernetes experience is a strong advantage

• ArgoCD experience for GitOps

• Atlantis for Terraform PR (Pull Request) Automation

• Tekton pipeline

• Ansible experience is a strong advantage

• Experience in Python, GoLang, Bash, AWS lambda experience is an advantage

- Knowledge of image vulnerability remediation and STIG hardening

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, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.