Infrastructure Specialist: Azure Platform

Job description

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology

In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world class Associate Program for university hires. As an Associate at IBM Consulting you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired, talented individuals, who believe no problem is too big to solve.
We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning, mentorship, development of technical skills, and continuous personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential, the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Associate level Infrastructure Specialist at IBM you will support the infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward?
Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. As an Associate Infrastructure Specialist, you'll be responsible for keeping up with the latest changes, using your expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our clients and products. In your role you may be responsible for:

·  Define, analyze and review technical architecture on required platform and coming up with architecture options and recommendations
·  Define, detail, and scope the technical requirements into solutions
·  Work across key activities in configuration, systems management tools and backup and recovery
·  Support Technical Consultants and lead in building solutions and providing technical mentoring and guidance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Ability to thrive in an ever-changing, technology-based Consulting environment
·  Ability to work both analytically using data and systems with a logical sequence to complex tasks
·  Includes monitoring, incident response, answering service requests, and execution of changes
·  Ability to configure Azure native tools, Configure backup, SDN
·  Supports 24x7 operations of production Azure IaaS Cloud environments, Includes monitoring, incident response, answering service requests, and execution of changes

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills
·  Exposure to basic data science concepts
·  Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands