Internship: Development of a CI/CD pipeline for a z/OS product (m/w/x)

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Get to know us:

IBM Z System Automation is the leading software solution for high availability and automation on the IBM Z platform. For our customers we offer a policy-based self-healing high-availability solution that maximizes the efficiency and availability of business-critical systems and applications. IBM Z is the leading computing platform for commercial business transaction processing and it plays in important role in many industries such as financial business airline booking manufacturing and more.
We develop using modern methods of the agile software engineering process. We are part of an international and globally organized development team for IBM Z Systems Management and IT Optimization Software located in Böblingen the US and China.

What you will be doing:

You will have the chance to work on a research and validate solutions to implement a CI/CD pipeline for our existing z/OS management solution (Z System Automation). Components of this product are implemented with different programming languages (C/C++ REXX Assembler Java and more) build with different grown build engines (Rational Team Concert MAVEN NPM) and tested with several tools like JUNIT JEST and ROBOT Framework.

The scope of the internship is a research how this setup can be optimized and integrated into a build pipeline such as offered by Jenkins.
The future pipeline build solution has to enable both – private builds and tests for our developers as well as for regular product builds.
You will work together with other team members from our product development team in a very heterogenous environment: Windows Linux z/OS as well as virtual environments provided by DOCKER container any by different solutions available in the Cloud.

If you enjoy a flexible and agile work environment then the Z System Automation development team is your place to work. If you’re interested and available for at least 4 months please get in contact with us and include in your response all relevant documents (preferably all in one single pdf file):

1) Cover Letter incl. your availability (earliest start and latest end date)
2) CV incl. your level of German
3) Certificate of enrollment from you university
4) Current transcript of records and other relevant certificates / references
5.1) Non-EU citizen studying in Germany: copy of passport residence and work permit
5.2) Non-EU citizen studying elsewhere: prove of identity incl. place of birth

We are looking forward to your application !

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You understand the principle ideas behind a CI/CD pipeline and ideally already have experience with tools like Git GitHub Jenkins Maven etc.
• You are curious and interested in programming and know how to build programs in different programming languages (C/C++ REXX Java Javascript Shell …)
• You have basic programming experiences in at least one of the above mentioned languages
• You are thrilled by solving problems on your own – but in a team that can help whenever you have questions
• You enjoy working in a motivated team
• Language proficiency: Good English skills and German at least B1

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Basic knowledge about the product IBM Z System Automation