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:
- 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 .
- Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations.
- Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
- Developing successful relationships at all levels —from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
- Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in designing, implementing, migrating, and supporting zLinux workloads, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for mission-critical systems.
- Provide consulting and technical delivery services for Linux on IBM Z environments.
- Design and implement zLinux solutions aligned with client requirements and industry best practices.
- Lead migration projects for workloads to IBM Z platforms.
- Ensure system reliability, performance tuning, and security hardening for enterprise environments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate zLinux into hybrid and cloud architectures.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Support clients with problem resolution, troubleshooting, and optimization of zLinux systems.
- Linux on IBM Z (zLinux) – Deep understanding of architecture, configuration, and administration.
- IBM Z stack environments – Familiarity with virtualization, networking, and storage integration.
- System performance and availability – Skills in tuning, monitoring, and high-availability configurations.
- Security best practices – Experience implementing compliance and security controls on zLinux.
- Integration with cloud and hybrid environments.
- Automation tools such as Ansible for IBM Z.
- Familiarity with z/OSMF workflows and REST APIs for IBM Z.
Solid background in IBM Z architecture, virtualization technologies (LPARs, z/VM, KVM on Z), and integration of zLinux environments with distributed systems and hybrid cloud platforms. Capable of working closely with clients to assess requirements, define technical solutions, and execute projects aligned with business and operational objectives.Demonstrates strong analytical skills, customer focus, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional and global teams. Experienced in troubleshooting complex environments, optimizing system performance, and ensuring operational stability in enterprise-scale infrastructures.