Application Consultant-Edge & Network Cloud

Introduction

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 a cloud Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Cloud Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems. You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. Your primary responsibilities include: Architecting Modern Solutions: Analyze the clients legacy applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native core systems, and modernization strategies for our clients. Collaborative Modernization: Work with clients and IBM teams to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using modern cloud native architectures. Innovative Cloud Applications: Envision creative ways of applying cloud infrastructure and platform services to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a role involving network design, implementation, and administration, with at least 5 years specifically focused on Edge and/or Network Cloud technologies.
• Proven experience in application consulting, ideally within a large enterprise setting.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing principles, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.
• Extensive knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, etc.), routing, switching, VPN, Firewalls, Load balancing, and SD-WAN
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cisco Certified Network Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with IBM's Edge and Network Cloud offerings