(Senior) Hybrid Cloud Architect (m/f/x)

Job description

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting embraces 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 IBM 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 Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.

You'll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system to facilitate,iterate and document the design and adoption of a hybrid cloud model.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• You will act as a trusted advisor aligned to industry trends that develops the framework and integrated solutions that meet the customer's business needs.
• Collaborate with members of the client and IBMers team to define and execute proofs of concept and minimum viable solutions.
• Own the solutions architecture plan while being a "hands-on" builder in a client-facing engagement.
• Champion an entrepreneurial mindset and deliver unique value by leveraging industry and technology expertise to drive innovative strategies to accelerate clients' success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  You understand the different cloud solutions (multi, hybrid, public, private, on premise)
·  You have proficient knowledge of cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP) and implications for the solution design
·  You have a solid background in technical consulting, with demonstrated IT experience in solving enterprise customer problems
·  You are experienced in one or more programming languages used in cloud application development
·  3+ years of experience in architecting/delivering complex and large-scale IT projects
·  2+ years of experience in architecting cloud projects, Kubernetes, Containerization
·  1+ year experience in usage, configuration or administration of container orchestrator like OpenShift at enterprise scale
·  Knowledge about application modernization towards cloud (cloud transformation)
·  Certification: Red Hat and/or hyperscaler
·  Agile working methods and mindset
·  You are always looking to learn something new and know about the latest technical trends.
·  Fluent in German and English (minimum C1)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  End-to-End Design, implementation and configuration of a toolchain with established DevOps tools
·  Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.
·  Experience and knowledge of cloud infrastructure