• Delivery Consultant z/OS Network and z/OS Security

    IBM (Poughkeepsie, NY)


    Introduction

     

    Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering worldclass 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 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. Help clients, to configure and implement z/OS Communications Server technologies for SNA, APPN, TCP/IP, and VTAM following industry best-practices Familiar with System Z Networking connectivity technologies including Dynamic XCF, OSA-Express and HiperSockets. Help clients with z/OS security.

    Required technical and professional expertise

    * Possess skills to present and verbally communicate

    * Problem Determination and Problem Source skills to assist clients with deploying System IBM Z Networking technologies

    * z/OS: - System Programmer set of skills

    * Skills in z/OS

    * Experience configuring and implementing z/OS Communications Server technologies for SNA, APPN, TCP/IP, and VTAM following industry best-practices

    * Experience with System Z Networking connectivity technologies including Dynamic XCF, OSA-Express and HiperSockets.

    * Experience with RACF and Certificate Management

    Preferred technical and professional experience

    * Analytical/critical/outside-the-box thinking in problem solving

    * Ability to work well in team environment as well as independently without direction

    * Mainframe systems software programming experience in Network and RACF areas.

    * Experience with z/OS Dataset Encryption

     

    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.