Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.
As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem-solving issue- / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.
If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…
· Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration and product support with a sense of urgency .
· Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations.
· Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
· Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels —from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
· Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
· Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
Required Skills:
- Deep understanding of midrange storage systems (Dell EMC PowerStore, Unity, VNX, NetApp FAS, HPE Nimble, 3PAR), installation, configuration, maintenance of storage arrays, disk shelves, and related hardware, knowledge of storage protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB), and familiarity with RAID levels.
- Proficiency in storage management software (Unisphere, System Manager, CLIs), experience with storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, snapshot, replication, data migration, and understanding of storage monitoring and alerting tools.
- Basic understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMware), virtualization concepts (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V), and storage integration with virtualized environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for diagnosing and resolving storage issues, root cause analysis, and experience with performance monitoring and capacity planning.
- Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, subnetting, VLANs), knowledge of Fibre Channel and iSCSI networking.
- Ability to create clear documentation, excellent communication skills, and ability to work in a team.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation, and knowledge of IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform).
- Familiarity with cloud storage and integration with on-premises, experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of storage performance tuning, and experience with performance analysis tools.
- In-depth knowledge of data protection and disaster recovery, experience with backup/recovery software (Veeam, Commvault), and business continuity planning.
- Relevant storage certifications (Dell EMC Proven Professional, NetApp NCDA/NCIE, HPE ASE).
- Understanding of storage security, encryption, and access control.
- Understanding of storage interaction with Databases (SQL, Oracle).
- Experience with Brocade or Cisco SAN fabric switches.