Z DevOps Solution Engineer

Introduction
Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you’ll have a career delivering world-class 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
Are you ready to start developing complex IT solutions applying best practices to accelerate delivery of high-quality hybrid cloud and AI services whilst minimizing risk?

yes then join IBM Technology Experts Labs Solution Engineering team.

As a #Z DevOps Solution Engineer you will be responsible for defining and producing world-class client focused IBM Z modernization solutions. These solutions will be implemented by our IBM Technology Experts Labs delivery consultants to the high standards defined by yourself. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs Solution Engineering you will be client focused courageous pragmatic and at the edge of technology to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

To help achieve this win-win outcome a ‘day-in-the-life’ in this role may include but not be limited to…

• Working closely with IBM Z clients to understand their main challenges and develop solutions to help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability security and agility.
• Create IBM Z DevOps solutions that use robust toolsets to develop and maintain z/OS applications; visualize applications data and jobs on z/OS; develop and test for cloud native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
• Working together with IBM Z and Expert Labs Sales team to respond to client opportunities with proposals aligned to their business needs.
• Working collaboratively with IBM Z Ecosystem to support customers transfor-mation initiatives.
• Working closely with our WW Technology Expert Labs Product Management con-tributing to the development of assets methodologies and service offerings that will help in making the Z DevOps services scalable repeatable and standardized.
• Working closely with our WW Technology Expert Labs delivery teams to ensure seamless transition from solutioning phase all the way through to implementa-tion.
• Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation curiosity and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client partner and IBM team.
• Understanding clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of discovery design devel-opment integration implementation migration and product

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Deep expertise in solutioning deploying and optimizing software solutions for IBM Z LinuxONE and associated operating systems and virtualization software.
• Deep expertise in leading Z DevOps services engagements.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD solutions including integrations between Z DevOps products and open source or third-party offerings SCM migrations and CI/CD pipeline implementations.
• z/OS and sub-systems fundamentals (CIS Db2 z/OS Connect..)
• Programming skills: COBOL and Java

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with IBM Watson Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) process and underlying technologies
• Experience with advisory type of roles or direct leadership for Z DevOps transformation projects leveraging business partners for execution as needed.
• Experience with the following products will be highly regarded: Developer for z/OS (IDz) Enterprise Edition (IDzEE) Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz) Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI) IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T) and IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS (ZVDT)