Provide expert technical consultation and leadership in the analysis & design, planning, and implementation of IBM Cloud solutions using reference architectures and best practices.
Work with the GHS Cloud Sales team to gather customer requirements, create IBM Cloud architectures, detailed Cloud solution designs that include specifications, diagrams, models and presentation material.
Design compute, storage, network, security, backup/restore, and disaster recovery capabilities that meet requirements and optimize costs.
Establish and assist in the implementation of monitoring and management of the Cloud instances for availability, performance, and cost optimizations.
Architect and guide the implementation of IBM Cloud solutions using modern deployment and configuration tools and practices (e.g, Terraform, Ansible, scripting)
Enable IBM Cloud managed services through configuration management, monitoring, and incident management using automation and integration.
Utilize native cloud services to meet availability and resiliency requirements
Establish internal pricing and instance selection model for virtual instances
Understand and architect migration of on-premise workloads to a public cloud environment