Deployment Specialist

Introduction
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.

We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning mentorship development of technical skills and continuous personal growth all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.

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 Deployment Specialist at IBM you will support the infrastructure running industries likes transportation energy insurance banking or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward?

Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise off-premise or a hybrid approach. As a Associate Deployment Specialist you’ll be responsible for keeping up with the latest changes using your expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our clients and products.

In your role you may be responsible for:

• Actively involved in deployment allocation sessions
• Performs qualitative evaluations of the release packages including the software release and the documentation and raises non-conformance alerts to developers and stakeholders
• Evaluates the risks connected to the application implementation plans and informs the designated stakeholders on his findings
• Responsible for documenting all deployment activities the installation and rollback plans
• Ensures the requirements of the target environment are fully met before installing the application; if not coordinates the preparation activities with other parties (infrastructure development team other support teams)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 1 year experience in Unix Systems
• Experience on at least one application server preferably Oracle Weblogic Suite
• At least 1 year experience in Oracle Database
• At least 1 year experience in Deployment of applications or Deployment techniques
• English: Fluent

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Knowledge of application architectures
• Experience working in a live application management environment
• Experience with ITIL best practices and ITSM operational environments