Job description
A career in IBM Consulting embraces 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 IBM 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 ground breaking 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
The Practice provides services to support the transformation of customer applications and application development styles through application development utilising the cloud (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure) and migration/modernisation of existing applications.
Cloud computing also includes middleware and application design, migration and construction services utilising container platforms.
- In system construction/application development projects, we design application architectures and study solutions in line with customers' business needs under technical constraints such as cloud computing.
- In cloud migration projects for existing IT systems, develop new applications and modernise them by utilising the latest technologies (e.g. APIs, microservices, DevOps, containers).
- Lead project/team members while supporting the project manager from a technical point of view as an application architect.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Cloud Hosting Architecture, specifically multi account hub and spoke platform patterns using AWS Transit Gateway and delivery of cross account shared Services
- Security considerations in Cloud Hosting and the Scottish Government Cloud First Principles
- Automated Cloud Provisioning
- Cloud Technical Delivery skills in Infrastructure as code delivery, AWS Services (e.g. AWS Pipeline, Cloud Formation, IAM, Transit Gateway), Terraform, Python, Ansible, Github, Jenkins, Packer, InSpec
- Cloud Integration Architecture
- You are eligible for a Security Clearance (SC) in the UK
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Cross Government data transfer, technical considerations and data
- Deep integration experience of a wide variety of integration solutions both Cloud and on premise
- Deep knowledge in technology underpinning the DWP integration solutions
- Depth of knowledge of DevOps software
About Business Unit
Your Life @ IBM
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 IBM
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.
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