Introduction
In this role, you will work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery 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.

A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You will collaborate 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 will be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you 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 learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Define, analyse, 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

• 8 – 12 years of experience as OS administrator and cloud Infrastructure specialist. Ready to work on shifts including night shifts
• Knowledge on Service Management Concepts (Incident, Service, Change and Problem Management). ITIL Foundation Certification preferred
• Hands on experience with Hyperscale’s (preferably AWS, Azure, GCP….). Foundation level certifications for at least one hyperscale required. Linux OS (preferably SUSE) Administration skills.
• Installation, configuration, troubleshooting of OS related issue, and agents for scanning, AV management, endpoint management etc. High availability configuration knowledge. Storage concepts – file system
• Ability to follow the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for execution of of existing scripts for OS Patching, port opening, VM build etc. Monitor and trigger backups. Capability to track and update OS patches. Handle port related issue at firewall and OS level. Shell Scripting. Backups & restore from backups.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Vulnerability remediation knowledge
• Understanding of Active directory integration
• Understanding of DNS concepts.