Infrastructure Specialist: Cloud Platforms

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.

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 groundbreaking 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 an Infrastructure 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 an Associate Infrastructure 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:

• Define analyse and review technical architecture on required platform and coming up with architecture options and recommendations.
• Define detail and scope the technical requirements into solutions.
• Work across key activities in configuration systems management tools and backup and recovery
• Support Technical Consultants and lead in building solutions and providing technical mentoring and guidance.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Innovative thinking capability with a passion for thinking out of the box and introduction of new technologies.
• Be Service-oriented interpersonal skills and adaptable to a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of command structures and system component relationships for latest generation Network and Security infrastructure.
• Problem solving skills. Ability to analyse complex problems and determine solutions.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8 -10 years of experience in the telecommunications field in managing and deployment of mid to large enterprise networks.
• Experiencing with networking and associated protocols including TCP/UDP DMVPN OSPF BGP DNS SNMP and other internet associated protocols (e.g. IPSEC HSRP BGP OSPF 802.11 QoS)
• Knowledge in multiple architectural domains and network design to include routing switching DataCenter and security.
• Good understanding of network infrastructure and network hardware along with good understanding on NSX/SDN administration.
• Knowledge in CISCO Switches (Cisco Catalyst) Firewall (Checkpoint SonicWall FortiGate) Transceiver PROXY Router DNS VPN WAF and IPS etc.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of LAN WAN and Data Centre network architectures enterprise design and industry standards relevant to data communications / networking and computing.
• Knowledge of setting up SDN and VSX and supporting the same.
• Professional certification in CISSP CCIE CCNA or CCNP are advantageous and possess SonicWALL Related Certification will be an added advantage.