Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated individual interested in contributing to success of developing an innovative, future-oriented solution that automates and simplifies the installation, configuration and testing of Linux on Z systems.

Your main duties will include Proactively managing the release of the Product by identifying and mitigating risks and remove obstacles to release. Facilitate releases of varying size, complexity and duration by coordinating with multiple cross-functional teams and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through design, development and testing. You will also work closely with the customers to ensure the software meets their needs.

Step in and be part of IBM System Development Lab community, outstanding for its innovation and team spirit, offering one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.

Engineers in our team work inside a highly agile development environment and are responsible for the full software development life cycle - ranging from designing and implementing of the new product features, testing for industry-leading quality assurance over to continuous product delivery as well as supporting our global customers. You should be thrilled by emerging technologies with our software products for future Mainframe and Cloud-based markets.

What you will do (Roles & Responsibilities) :

• Plan and manage release schedules and milestones.

• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and remove obstacles to release. Facilitate releases by coordinating with multiple cross-functional teams.

• Create and deliver upon a Technology plan that fits into the overall project plan and to report and deliver against that plan

• Build and maintain detailed project plan with tasks, resource assignment, dependencies, and expected start and completion dates

• Review and maintain adherence to established processes and standards, highlight gaps and facilitate mitigation.

• Establish and maintain top Risks, Issues and Dependencies in Clarity

• Manage mitigation/remediation plans and report in proper channel

• Work closely with Product, Engineering and Operations alike to ensure their corresponding needs are being addressed,

• Keeping in mind that proper control processes are in place.

• Communicate plans and status and escalate issues as required.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 6 years of IT Release Management experience in an enterprise IT application development environment.

• Expertise in Release Management, Project Management and/or Product Management including driving and overseeing scrum of scrums, and effectively planning releases for large-scale system integrations.

• Experience using release management tools (Jira, EWM, GitHub, Aha)

• Familiarity with various project management tools and proven experience working with Linux or Unix-based operating systems to facilitate efficient project execution.

• Experience in Secure Engineering, Security Privacy by Design requirements and compliance

• Experience automating in Jira, Git, Test Rail or release management tools.

• Strong ability to drive tasks to completion independently.

• Knowledge of Virtualisation, Hypervisors and zLinux.

• Experience in addressing and Supporting Cutomers issues

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 3 years of IT Release Management experience in an enterprise IT application development environment.

• Experience with implementation and reviewing Agile/hybrid processes, maintaining JIRA dashboards and backlogs, Epics, User Stories.

• Ability to improve and maintain new and existing processes.

• A credible, commercially-astute, results-driven professional. Willing to go the extra mile. Takes ownership to deliver, with a high level of flexibility and preparedness to get the job done

• A team player; multi-culturally aware with proven success working with cross-functional project teams in global environment. Proven ability to create a strong network.

• Inquisitive, analytical open mind and self-starter, willing to build knowledge by liaising with multiple internal/external teams/stakeholders and reviewing documents.

• Domain functional knowledge

• Experience working with Agile tools like JIRA and Git

• General experience in Cloud , Virtualisation and Customer Support.

• Excellent communication skills: verbal, written and presentation.

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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