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.
In this role you'll 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.
Responsibilities include setting up configuring and managing AWS EC2 instances storage solutions networking and databases to effectively support business applications. The specialist implements and oversees essential AWS resources such as Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and Application Load Balancers (ALBs) to ensure smooth operations. They continuously monitor AWS infrastructure troubleshoot issues and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations to ensure reliable performance.
The specialist applies and enforces security measures to ensure AWS infrastructure complies with organizational policies and industry regulations. They optimize AWS costs by right-sizing resources developing cost-effective solutions and monitoring usage patterns. Collaboration with IT teams is key to implementing and integrating AWS infrastructure solutions based on existing designs.
Experience with DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) is required. The specialist should be skilled in using automation tools like AWS CloudFormation Terraform and Ansible to automate and streamline processes. Experience with cloud migration projects including implementation and execution is also necessary. Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is crucial for effective container orchestration and scaling.
As a Cloud Operations Specialist he/she play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our organization's cloud-based infrastructure and services. He/She will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design implement monitor and maintain our cloud environments ensuring high availability scalability security and cost-effectiveness. His/Her expertise in cloud technologies will contribute to the optimization of our cloud operations and the delivery of reliable services to our customers.