DevOps zSolutions - Delivery Consultant

Job description

Introduction
The Cloud and Cognitive Software Essential Management Management team is looking for enthusiastic and talented individuals to join us. Are ou passionate about helping clients acheive their business goals? Do you enjoy learning new technology and problem solving? Then Essential Management is for you!
You will have the opportunity to be a part of the Expert Labs organization where you develop critical-thinking skills and work with Subject Matters Experts to resolve complex problems for our worldwide clients. In addition, you will help drive delivery to leading-edge technology in Openshift, Cloud Pak for Data, Watson Knowledge catalog, Instana and Watson Artificial Intelligent IT Operations (Watson AIOps)

Your Role and Responsibilities
Are you ready to start working with complex IT environments applying best practices to accelerate delivery of hybrid cloud solutions with higher quality, while minimizing risk?

Have you ever thought about assisting IT development teams to fight disruption and innovate faster, using agile practices to deliver hybrid applications via an automated pipeline?

As a #DevOps zSolutions Delivery Consultant, you will learn and experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Global Delivery Center #GDC 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…

·  Working under general supervision you will be understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
·  Leading IBM Z DevOps solutions that uses robust toolsets to develop and maintain z/OS applications; visualize applications, data, and jobs on z/OS; develop and test for cloud native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
·  Working collaboratively with IBM Z Ecosystem to support customers transformation initiatives.
·  Contributing to the development of service offerings that will help in making the migration services scalable and repeatable.
·  Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, and 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.
·  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. 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  B.E./BTech in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering.
·  Deep expertise in deploying and optimizing software solutions for IBM Z, LinuxONE and associat-ed operating systems and virtualization software.
·  Deep expertise in leading zDevOps services engagements.
·  Deep expertise in CI/CD solutions, including integrations between Z DevOps products and open source or third-party offerings, SCM migrations and CI/CD pipeline implementations.
·  Ability to work independently and take accountability.
·  Excellent communication and presentation skills that are engaging, compelling, and influential.
·  10+ years of experience with IBM Z
·  10+ years of solution consulting or relevant industry experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Master’s in Computer Science or Engineering.
·  Large experience with advisory type of roles or direct leadership for DevOps transformation projects, leveraging business partners for execution as needed .
·  Large experience with flexible infrastructure implementation, including development and testing for cloud native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
·  Deep expertise in developing and maintaining long-term relationships with Customers through managing and interpreting their requirements and leading services engagements to successful outcomes.
·  Experience with the following products will be highly regarded: Developer for z/OS (IDz), Enterprise Edition (IDzEE), Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz), Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T) and IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS (ZVDT)
·  In addition to the above experience, the ideal candidate will have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
·  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
·  Dynamic team player who is comfortable working in a small, but rapidly evolving environment.
·  A passion for making a difference in their profession and the environment.