Delivery Consultant

Job description

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
As a Delivery Consultant,, you will learn and experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving issue- / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges. 
To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' in this role may include, but not be limited to…
·  Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working through 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
·  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

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Excellent communication and presentation skills that are equally engaging, compelling, and influential
·  You completed a technical degree i.e., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or an equivalent subject
·  Hands on exposure to real world application of computer science, information systems or engineering concepts
·  Utilize and manage version control systems, particularly GitHub.
·  Demonstrate proficiency in Python programming and Bash scripting for automation tasks.
·  Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
·  Familiar with open architectural design including Kubernetes and Container design, databases structure and data fabric, and integrating using API’s and scripting
·  Manage and maintain Docker and Kubernetes environments.
·  Implement container orchestration solutions for scalability and efficiency.
·  Understanding of configuration management tools, particularly Ansible or Terraform.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Problem-solving skills with an attention to detail, precision, and time management
·  Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team
·  Demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions
·  Experience in infrastructure as code practices.
·  Familiarity with cloud platform among IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure.
·  Ability to deploy and manage applications in cloud environments.
·  Knowledge of OpenShift for container orchestration.
·  Experience working with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.