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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.


You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.


Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Infrastructure Management:

  • Deploy, configure, and manage cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, availability, and security.
  • Implement automation and orchestration to streamline deployment and scaling processes.


Cloud Services Administration:

  • Manage and administer various cloud services, including compute instances, storage solutions, databases, networking components, and serverless offerings hosted on AWS and Azure.
  • Optimize resource utilizations to ensure efficient cloud service delivery and cost management.


Monitoring and Incident Response:

  • Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms to promptly identify and address performance issues and security vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborate with the incident response team to troubleshoot and resolve operational incidents, ensuring minimal service disruption.


Security and Compliance:

  • Implement security best practices to protect cloud environments from potential threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Assist in conducting security audits and assessments to maintain compliance with industry regulations and standards.


Collaboration and Documentation:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and security, to understand requirements and align cloud infrastructure accordingly.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation related to cloud infrastructure, processes, and procedures.


Continuous Improvement:

  • Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in cloud technologies.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and process improvement to enhance cloud operations.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Has working experience in cloud operations, managing cloud-based infrastructure, and deploying cloud services.
  • Proficiency in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and tools.
  • Familiarity with scripting and automation using languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.
  • Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools for proactive issue detection.
  • Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing security controls in cloud environments.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
  • Certification in AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Architect is a plus


ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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 500 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.

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.

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