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.
As a sênior Application Consultant at IBM you will help us usher clients into a new age of future-looking technology. You'll be assisting clients in the selection, implementation, and support of applications, methodology, and tools. You'll be trained up to perform as an expert on existing and/or new applications specialized around things like Cloud, Blockchain, DevOp, Enterprise Applications, and Mobile. You will help our clients integrate enterprise-wide data for improved performance and efficiency. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed. In your role you may be responsible for:
- Working with project teams to advise clients on enterprise-wide data integrations;
- Creating ways to better assess analytics, better supporting business decision making;
- Work as a team member with client personnel and other IBM teams to identify functional requirements and subsequently working with or in some instances leading others in the identification, justification, and design of the client's solution;
- Participate in a wide range of design activities, from requirements analysis through systems, application and/or process design specification and implementation;
- Gain knowledge across multiple platforms, processes, or architectures.
- Ensure high availability, reliability and performance of systems through Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices;
- Implement and manage automation for repetitive tasks and operational processes, reducing manual effort and risks;
- Monitor and optimize critical systems, infrastructure and applications using observability and monitoring tools;
- Analyze and manage critical incidents, leading the identification of root cause and implementation of definitive solutions;
- Develop and maintain SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, aligning them with business goals;
- Work collaboratively with development, operations and security teams to implement robust CI/CD pipelines and promote infrastructure as code (IaC);
- Ensure system resilience through chaos engineering strategies, load testing and automation of failovers;
- Perform cost optimization in cloud environments and improve operational efficiency;
- Solid knowledge in the design and implementation of resilient and scalable architectures;
- Proficiency in SRE practices, such as defining SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, and integrating them into systems;
- Experience with advanced automation and large-scale infrastructure management;
- Expertise in monitoring and optimizing microservices and distributed systems;
- Experience with Kubernetes and managing clusters in production;
- Advanced knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resilience testing;
- Proactivity and ability to solve problems in complex scenarios;
- Good communication skills to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams;
- Ability to prioritize demands and work in dynamic environments;
- Experience in SRE, DevOps or related functions.