**Introduction** Software Developers at IBM play a critical role in designing, coding, testing, and delivering industry-leading solutions. Whether working internally or with clients, software development is key to IBM’s success and innovation. As part of the Ansible Development team, you will help modernize mainframe automation by developing scalable, reusable, and impactful solutions. **Your role and responsibilities** IBM Software Labs are research and development centers that create products, technology, and solutions for IBM. As member of zSW you will be having opportunity to work on emerging technologies to drive digital transformation for IBM and its clients. You will be part of worldwide zSW development organization that development product and offering to support customers in their hybrid cloud and AI journey. As a fullstack developer you will work within a squad model, responsible for development and test cases. * Collaborate closely with the team, ensuring holistic and organic changes to projects. * Operate across the entire technical stack, switching contexts as needed between pipeline activities, Ansible development, and infrastructure automation. * Design, implement, and adapt solutions based on project requirements. * Create clear and concise documentation using playbooks, Markdown (MD), and reStructuredText (RST). * Engage in open-source development and interact with Fortune 500 clients, requiring strong communication and adaptability. * **Required technical and professional expertise** * 3 - 5 years of software development experience in Python and Shell Programming (including regex) * 2+ years of experience in Ansibile developing (Jinja, Playbooks, Rulebooks). * 3+ years experience in developing application for embedded, Enterprise or operating system development (knowledge of IBMz/LinuxONE is advantageous). * Comfortable with Linux/Unix development environment (command line development, configuration, libraries,..etc). * Familiar with Linux system administration (Linux/Unix fundamentals, administration experience.) * Strong analytical, debugging and problem solving skills to analyse issues and defects reported by customer-facing and test teams. * Proficient in source control management tools (GitHub, ) and with Agile Life Cycle Management tools. **Preferred technical and professional experience** Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise * Experience in Containerisation & Orchestration technologies like Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift. * Familiar with Cloud Computing IBM Cloud, Azure, AWS. * Experience creating scalable, reusable deployments. * Understanding URLs, endpoints, authentication, authorization, parsing JSON/YAML structures. General Skills & Work Environment * Ability to adapt to a dynamic DevOps environment with evolving technologies. * Familiarity with open-source contributions and community engagement. * Exposure to new-to-z/OS technologies such as Terraform, Prometheus, and other automation tools. *