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
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.
- Design and implement distributed caching strategies using AWS ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached) to reduce latency and improve application performance.
- Optimize data caching and retrieval mechanisms to ensure efficient usage of ElastiCache.
- Monitor and maintain ElastiCache clusters handle failovers scaling backups and security.
- Work with application developers to integrate ElastiCache into existing services and databases (e.g. MySQL DynamoDB PostgreSQL).
- Implement caching patterns such as write-through read-through and cache-aside.
- Develop automation scripts for provisioning and maintaining cache clusters using AWS tools (CloudFormation CDK Terraform).
- Ensure high availability fault tolerance and disaster recovery for caching layers.
- Analyze application performance and suggest caching improvements based on metrics and logs.
- Implement proper TTL (time-to-live) strategies and eviction policies for optimal cache usage.
- Participate in code reviews system design and technical discussions.
- 3+ years of experience with AWS services particularly ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached) .
- Strong understanding of distributed caching concepts and patterns.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python Java Node.js or Go.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch IAM VPC and networking in a cloud environment.
- Familiarity with database systems and data modeling (SQL and NoSQL).
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation or AWS CDK).
- Solid knowledge of Linux environments and scripting.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus Datadog or New Relic.