Software Engineering Storage Support Specialist - Sovereign Core Professional Mulhuddart, IE

Responsibilities

As a Senior Customer Support Engineer in IBM Sovereign Core, you will serve as a key technical specialist responsible for supporting highly secure, sovereign cloud environments deployed across on premises, partner operated, and fully isolated (air gapped) infrastructures, built on Red Hat OpenShift and integrated with IBM's AI, automation, and governance capabilities.

You will handle complex incidents, provide deep troubleshooting expertise, and work closely with customers operating in highly regulated and jurisdiction sensitive environments.

We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Support Specialist to help troubleshoot large scale, mission critical storage environments. This role focuses on advanced problem resolution, customer trust, and technical depth, with growing influence across teams and environments. You will work across modern data center architectures, cloud native platforms, and highly regulated infrastructures, with a focus on incident resolution, service stability, and operational excellence. Operating as a senior, independent resolver for complex issues, you will provide technical leadership in incident handling and partnering effectively across teams.

Due to the nature of this role and the associated client requirements, the candidate must, by the job start date, lawfully reside in, be legally authorized to work in, and perform the role exclusively within the EU country of employment.

Required Education

None

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Advanced troubleshooting experience in large scale storage environments, including diagnosing and resolving issues across distributed block, file, and object storage systems (ranging from 20 to 2000 nodes).
• Hands on experience supporting software defined and container native storage platforms, with strong working knowledge of CSI architectures and storage integration on Red Hat OpenShift (Ceph based platforms strongly preferred).
• Strong Linux and distributed systems troubleshooting skills, including analysing failures related to networking, consensus, replication, and recovery in production storage systems.
• Proven ability to analyse storage performance and availability issues, including investigation of IOPS, latency, throughput, rebalance/rebuild behaviour, and failure domain impacts across highly available systems.
• Experience leveraging observability data for support investigations, including interpreting metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose incidents, perform root cause analysis, and support incident response and escalation activities (with scripting skills to accelerate diagnostics considered a strong advantage).

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

The following skills are not required, however relevant experience would be a strong advantage.

• OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF / Rook-Ceph)
• Air gapped or sovereign deployment experience
• Scripting for diagnostics and operational tooling

Equal Opportunity Statement

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.