Infrastructure Specialist-DevOps

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow 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

As an Infrastructure Specialist-DevOps, you will design, deploy, and manage containerized applications across multiple cloud platforms. You will collaborate with application development and architecture teams to ensure high availability, load balancing, and security compliance. Your primary responsibilities will include: * Design and Deploy Containerized Applications: Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications across Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Red Hat platforms, utilizing Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation expertise. * Administer Hybrid Cloud Environments: Administer hybrid cloud environments, configure HA/DR measures, and manage Kubernetes clusters using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRIO expertise. * Monitor SLAs and Services Health: Monitor SLAs, services health, and key metrics, integrating these with CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless service delivery. * Integrate Tools for Performance Measurement: Collaboratively identify and integrate tools for performance, code quality, and code coverage measurement, defining quality gates in CI/CD pipelines. * Manage Virtualized Environments: Migrate and manage virtualized environments using Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring high availability, load balancing, and security compliance across on-premises, public cloud, and as-a-service deployments.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Multi-Cloud Platform Expertise: Exposure to designing, deploying, and managing containerized applications across Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Red Hat platforms. * Infrastructure as Code Provisioning: Experience working with Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation, administering hybrid cloud environments, and configuring HA/DR measures. * Kubernetes Cluster Management: Exposure to managing Kubernetes clusters using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRIO expertise, ensuring seamless service delivery. * CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, integrating tools for performance, code quality, and code coverage measurement, and defining quality gates. * Virtualized Environment Management: Exposure to migrating and managing virtualized environments using Red Hat OpenShift, ensuring high availability, load balancing, and security compliance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Cloud Security Compliance: Exposure to implementing security compliance measures across multiple cloud platforms, including Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Red Hat. * Advanced Containerization: Experience working with containerization technologies beyond Kubernetes, Docker, and CRIO, such as container networking and storage solutions. * Hybrid Cloud Optimization: Exposure to optimizing hybrid cloud environments for high availability, load balancing, and scalability, using Infrastructure as Code provisioning and sandbox environment creation expertise.

Years of Experience:
3-5