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Introduction

IBM offers a world-class public cloud. But what sets us and your career apart is our approach to hybrid cloud. A Technology Sales Engineer role in IBM Cloud means a career where you're leading prospective clients towards benefiting from using IBM Cloud Paks and Red Hat OpenShift products. It means you'll be directly impacting their adoption of next-generation hybrid cloud platforms to develop, run and manage workloads of some of the world’s most influential enterprises and brands. Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. Part of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our clients to invest in IBM's products and services.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will be primarily responsible for working with the field solutions architects in their efforts to make Red Hat's customers and partners successfully with our enterprise technologies and solutions for cloud, infrastructure, virtualisation, and middleware.

 

You'll solve problems, create possibilities, and establish working relationships with field solutions architects.

 

Assist and complement the field account managers, solutions architects with

presales and deep dive technical presentations, Product Demonstrations.

Provide evaluations of our offerings and proofs of concepts to partners and

customers.

 

Assist in responding to customer technical inquiries including RFPs and RFIs

Perform demonstrations of our offerings and solutions and support corporate

demonstration infrastructures.

 

Lead knowledge sharing across teams and functions

Participate in solutions architect discussion channels and internal technical

communities.

 

Assist marketing and business teams with launches of information about our

offerings.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 6 to 10 years of Client Facing Solution Architect Role Experience/presales experience 
  • 2 to 5 years of practical experience in at least two of the following - Red Hat
  • OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ansible, RedHat Virtualization, Openshift AI Platform, Openshift Virtualization, etc.
  • Excellent knowledge and Advanced technical understanding of Datacenter and Cloud infrastructure components like Networks, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Storage, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Server Virtualization, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Management Portal, Converged Architecture, etc.
  • Excellent knowledge and Advanced technical understanding of Kubernetes, Container platform, Container Native Virtualization and PaaS service.  Familiar with cloud infrastructure markets, competitive offerings, Private cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid cloud, hands-on knowledge of and experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, (RHEL) or another Linux distribution
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to persuade key stakeholders, ability to learn on your own and work in an ambiguous environment Solid documentation skills; comfortable presenting to mid and large-sized audiences and explaining technical details to non-technical audiences Red Hat Certifications like RHCA and RHCE would be a plus, Understanding of industry trends in cloud computing, end-user computing, development platform, or virtualization is a plus
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Opensource Technologies /Tool Knowledge
  • Proficiency in RH Products and technologies 
  • Redhat Certifications /Other Certifications
  • Good knowledge of Cloud /Hybrid Cloud technologies
  • Good to have industry domain knowledge (If any)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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