Introduction
At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM’s transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You’ll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact. IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day operations of the images.paas Quay registry, ensuring it meets its Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Maintain and extend the images-paas-operator (Go / operator-sdk) that automates Quay organization, repository, and access management
- Manage the GitOps pipeline that controls registry configuration, permissions, and organizational structure
- Monitor service health, respond to incidents, and drive blameless postmortems to continuously improve reliability
- Reduce operational toil through automation — if you do something twice, automate it the third time
- Manage LDAP-based user authentication and access provisioning
- Participate in an on-call rotation within a geographically distributed team for production support
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (platform teams, CI/CD teams, security) to support their registry needs
- Provide feedback and bug reports to Red Hat Quay product engineering based on real-world operational experience
- Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery procedures, and security compliance (SIA/PIA)
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 3+ years of experience operating production services on Kubernetes / OpenShift
- 2+ years of programming experience in Go
- Hands-on experience with container registries (Quay, Harbor, Docker Registry, or similar)
- Experience with GitOps workflows for managing infrastructure or application configuration
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (RHEL/Fedora preferred)
- Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of standard networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/TLS) and authentication protocols (LDAP)
- Comfort with incident response, on-call responsibilities, and working across time zones
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while keeping the team informed
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Experience with the Operator SDK or building Kubernetes operators
- Experience administering Red Hat Quay specifically
- Familiarity with container image security scanning and vulnerability management
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and image build automation
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, alerting)
- Knowledge of SRE principles — SLOs, error budgets, toil measurement
- Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Contributions to open source projects