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Introduction

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.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem-solving issue / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…

•Solving Client Challenges Effectively: 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 .

•Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations.

•Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.

•Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels —from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

•Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.

•Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.

Required technical and professional expertise

* Experience with MySQL (or other RDBMS) and running SQL queries

* Experience with deploying and managing software using Kubernetes, RedHat Openshift, AWS EKS, Helm Charts, and Docker Containers

* Experience with Linux OS commands

* Work from an approved IBM Office or Client Location at least 3 days a week

* Good communication and problem solving skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Knowledgeable and experienced with database environments such as Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, UDB/DB2, Informix, Teradata and/or Sybase is desirable

* Understanding Network and product software security concepts is desirable

* AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals Certification or similar cloud related certifications is desirable

* Knowledge of and experience with UNIX shell scripting and/or Python is a bonus

* Knowledge of and experience with Kafka and Logstash is a bonus

* Experience with Java programming and familiarity with Java cryptographic libraries is a bonus

* Familiarity with key management, certificate management and related communication protocols is a bonus

* Knowledge of and experience with Z/OS environments is a bonus

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.