Platform Engineer – Client Engineering

at  IBM

Introduction
Technology sales at IBM is evolving its way of working to break beyond boundaries with innovative approaches. Preferring to ‘show’ vs. ‘tell’, Client Engineering co-creates with clients, in real-time, on solutions to solve their hardest business challenges.
As a Platform Engineer within Client Engineering, 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.
Excellent onboarding training will set you up for success, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always part of a team, you’ll be surrounded by leaders and colleagues who are always willing to help and be helped – as you support pilots that compel clients to invest in IBM’s products and services.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Platform Engineer within IBM Client Engineering, 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. Your role as a Platform Engineer will be to work with cross-functional teams to realize the full potential of our hybrid cloud and AI solutions to prove business value to our clients.

We are committed to your success. If this role aligns with your career goals, your day to day contributions will help both your career and our clients to thrive. Here’s what a typical day might look like:

• Leverage contemporary hybrid cloud skills (e.g., AI, analytics, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, automation, security, networking, and storage) with deep industry expertise and an understanding of your clients’ businesses.
• Define and communicate the unique value of IBM’s technology, both technically and commercially.
• Participate in client sessions that include a range of public and hybrid cloud technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Paks, and Kubernetes.
• Support the solutions architecture plan and be a hands-on “builder” during client-facing engagements.
• Advice on solution architecture to align with platform best practices, with a focus on our clients target environment to ease transition to deployment.
• Work with deployment teams to transition platform assets and information to provide seamless transitions for our clients

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Hands-on experience with a wide range of cloud and AI technologies.
• Practical knowledge and direct experience with virtualized on-premise and cloud-based computing platforms.
• Experience in building application and infrastructure deployment automation workflows.
• Proven track record in participating in customer-facing technical solutions teams across various cloud architectures.
• Technical experience in a cloud-related domain such as Data/Analytics, Data Science, Security, or other cloud-native, hybrid, or public-cloud technology.
• Understanding and practical application of Agile best practices.
• Proficient in at least one common cloud native programming language (Java, Python, HCL, Rust, Ansible, etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in a technical operations role, such as site reliability or platform engineering, in hybrid-cloud and on-premise environments.
• Experience in deploying and operating solutions on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.
• Experience as a Solution Architect or in a public cloud consultant role.
• Experience in developing collaborative client relationships at all levels within organizations.
• Knowledge of Well-Architected Frameworks from AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.
• Relevant technical certifications (e.g., CNCF, AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud, DevOps).
• Experience working in dynamic team environments and cross-functionally with teams such as Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.

About Business UnitClient Engineering within IBM Technology Sales is about proactive initiative, controlled speed and positive impact to clients. Moving fast, we’ve a bias for action, and an obsession to support our clients overcome their hardest problems through fast-paced and agile co-creative experiences.
In a world where technology moves at speed, it’s essential that we stay ahead of the curve to provide tailored solutions from across IBM’s whole product suite, that meet our clients’ needs. It’s not enough for us to know that there are problems in the world. As a multi-disciplinary team of experts, we’re obligated to make sure they’re continually solved. It’s an obsession that drives us to help our clients modernize and thrive.
Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
Location StatementIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
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• Leverage contemporary hybrid cloud skills (e.g., AI, analytics, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, automation, security, networking, and storage) with deep industry expertise and an understanding of your clients’ businesses.
• Define and communicate the unique value of IBM’s technology, both technically and commercially.
• Participate in client sessions that include a range of public and hybrid cloud technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Paks, and Kubernetes.
• Support the solutions architecture plan and be a hands-on “builder” during client-facing engagements.
• Advice on solution architecture to align with platform best practices, with a focus on our clients target environment to ease transition to deployment.
• Work with deployment teams to transition platform assets and information to provide seamless transitions for our client