Platform Engineer - Client Engineering

Introduction
Technology sales at IBM is evolving its way of working to break beyond boundaries with innovative approaches. Preferring to ‘show’ vs. ‘tell’ Platform Engineer co-creates with clients in real-time on solutions to solve their hardest business challenges.

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be a key player in a multi-disciplinary team made up of Architects AI Engineers Designers and Business Technology Leaders. The brightest and creative minds collaborating with clients as one team and contributing to experiential working sessions and builds. The outputs of which produce pilots that lead to the deployment of enterprise-scale solutions at start-up speed.

At IBM the possibilities are endless. We offer extensive onboarding and ongoing development fostering an environment where you can thrive and shape your own career trajectory. Surrounded by a supportive team you’ll be integral in creating user-centric compelling pilots that lead clients to continually invest in IBM’s people products and services.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Platform Engineer you’ll play a key role in delivering unique client co-creation experiences to accelerate their transformation. You’ll be involved in all aspects of integrated solutions from identifying requirements to making technical decisions that impact the business case and working with cross-functional teams to realize the full potential of our hybrid cloud and AI solutions. such as Product Management Engineering and Customer Success.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Technical Expertise & Client Understanding: leverage contemporary hybrid cloud skills like AI analytics DevOps DevSecOps and more. Understand clients’ businesses deeply to tailor solutions effectively.
• Technology & Solution Communication: define and communicate IBM’s technology value both technically and commercially. Participate in client sessions focused on various cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenShift IBM Cloud Paks and Kubernetes.
• Solution Architecture & Deployment Support: advise on solution architecture to align with best practices and ease deployment transitions. Work with deployment teams to ensure seamless transitions of platform assets for clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Technical: experience in a cloud-related domain such as Data/Analytics Data Science Security or other cloud-native hybrid or public-cloud technology. Proficient in at least one common cloud native programming language (Java Python HCL Rust Ansible etc.). Practical knowledge of virtualized on-premise and cloud-based platforms
• Solution Development & Deployment: experience in building deployment automation workflows for applications and infrastructure. Understanding and applying Agile best practices in development processes.
• Client-Facing Experience: proven track record in participating in customer-facing technical solutions teams across various cloud architectures.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with technical operations role such as site reliability or platform engineering in hybrid-cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience as a Solution Architect or in a public cloud consultant role deploying and operating solutions on AWS Azure IBM Cloud or Google Cloud.
• Relevant technical certifications (e.g. CNCF AWS IBM Cloud Azure Google Cloud DevOps).