Introduction
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.
Your Role and Responsibilities IBM Technology Expert Labs is looking to cover several Infrastructure Delivery Consultant positions, with focus in some of the following areas: Storage, Mainframe zSystems and IBM i / Power. As an IBM Infrastructure 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 Technical and Professional Expertise IBM Infrastructure Solutions Expertise: IBM Technology Expert Labs is looking for several positions, with expertice in the following areas: Storage, zSystems and IBM i / Power.
If you have experience in any of the areas listed avobe, this is a good opportunity to join the IBM Technology Expert Labs team.
The knowledge for those areas are:
[Storage Delivery Consultant]
Required:
- Candidate shound have, at least, one year of hands-on experience managing Storage solutions. Including but not limited to Storage planning and desing, installation, configuration and management storage solutions.
- Strong Linux/Unix skills with experience in OS system administration, Storage Volume management, debugging, package manager (rpm and dpkg), user management, OS based permissions.
- Experience with NAS based solutions
- Experience managing Broadcom or Cisco SAN solutions
- Strong IP networking knowledge, from a concept point of view, like switching, routing, firewalls, proxy, vlan managing, etc. (hands-on experience is not required).
- Fluent in english.
[zSystems Delivery Consultant]
Required:
- Candidate should have at least 1 years of hands-on experience in z/OS or zVM
- Fluent in english.
Optional:
- Candidate should have experience to install, upgrade, configuration and testing of IBM Z operating system, subsystem and related software
- Candidate should have experience in planning and implementation reports and documentation
- Candidate should have good understanding of z/OS high availability and Copy Services technology including Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex ) on z/OS
- Candidate should have deep, hands-on skills in ONE or MORE of the following subject matter areas: Networking, Storage, Security, CICS, Linux and WebSphere MQ Series
- z/VM & zSecurity, RACF, Sysplex, DB2 plex, z/VM system programming & Linux on z Systems administration
[IBM i / Power Delivery Consultant]
Required:
- At least, one year hands on experience managing IBM i or Power AIX/Linux solutions.
- Experience with HMC console
- Strong IP networking knowledge
Optional:
- Experience with VIOS setup
- Experience managing PowerVM
- Experience with LPAR definitions
- Experience with OS and Firmware upgrades
- Experience with PowerHA
- Experience with PowerVC
- Fluent in english
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise IBM Infrastructure Solutions Expertise:
Knowledge in several areas, even when it is not required in order to apply for this position, will be a plus.
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