Your Role and Responsibilities:

As a Python Cloud Development Engineer, you will design, develop, and test Power Private Cloud software and participate in architecturelevel discussions with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to convert requirements into highlevel and lowlevel designs. Active participation and contribution to opensource communities, along with familiarity with opensource tools, is preferred. The role requires experience and understanding of AWS, Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift, along with software development in the cloud domain, including OpenStack, virtualization (KVM), Linux OS internals, networking, storage, and security.

Understanding cloudbased virtualization platforms such as GCP and Azure, along with OpenStack concepts, is also expected.

IBM India Systems Development Lab is seeking a Software Engineer/Developer to be an integral part of the team responsible for product development and testing of the PowerVC platform on IBM Power. The product is built on the OpenStack cloud computing platform using Python. You will work closely with opensource communities, contribute to opensource development and testing, and apply cloud development and automation frameworks to deliver highquality products, with opportunities to contribute to both frontend and backend development.

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

Professional Experience

- 4+ years of experience in the IT industry
- 4+ years of experience working as a developer, wellversed in feature enablement on private and/or public cloud platforms, or in an equivalent role supporting partners and enterprises
- 4+ years of experience in solution development or implementation in Unix/Linux environments using Python

Technical Skills




- Strong proficiency in Python programming and scripting
- Solid understanding of OpenStack concepts
- Experience with OpenStack cloud computing platforms
- Familiarity with objectoriented design principles and design patterns applicable to modern software development
- Working knowledge of cloud service and deployment models
- Exposure to FullStack development (React, Node.js, Python) is a plus
- Commercial experience with OpenStack, virtualization, or public cloud services such

Solution Design Customer Engagement
- Proven experience in designing and developing customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology environment
- Ability to identify business challenges and develop customized technical solutions
- Comfortable performing customerfacing activities in fastpaced environments with short timelines
- Capable of facilitating technical discussions with internal teams and external stakeholders

Development Practices Collaboration
- Applied experience working within Agile, Scrum, and DevOps teams
- Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including collaboration with opensource communities
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in an agile team environment

Learning Community Engagement
- Strong selflearning ability with a demonstrated capacity to quickly adopt and apply new technologies
- Keen interest in contributing to and building opensource communities
- Ability to rapidly learn new frameworks, tools, and techniques

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

- Handson experience working with OpenStackbased cloud environments
- Experience with infrastructure automation
- 1+ year of handson experience working with Ansible
- Experience contributing to or collaborating within opensource communities is a solid plus

Years of Experience: 3 - 6

📌 Python Cloud Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 IBM
📍 Bengaluru