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Introduction
IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Red Hat Engineer, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Analyze the clients' legacy applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native core systems, and modernization strategies for our clients.
• Work with clients and IBM team to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using modern cloud native architectures.
• Envision creative ways of applying cloud infrastructure and platform services to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries.
• Act as a consultant during project delivery & solutioning phases. Leads implementation of architecture for omnichannel systems of engagement.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Should be strong in software architecture fundamentals & assets, tools using garage method for cloud. The practitioner should have at least 2 years of experience in API and Microservices based architecture implementation.
• Should be strong in microservices fundamentals and should be expert in at least one of these technologies - Node.js, Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS.
• Should have very good understanding about cloud native development principles.
• Should be strong in containers and serverless computing fundamentals.
• Added advantage if has good understanding of Angular.js, scripting technologies like javascript, CSS.
• The practitioner should have experience in working on RedHat OpenShift and ability to map existing components/functionalities to RedHat OpenShift specific services and deeply understands the advantage and disadvantages of related RedHat OpenShift services.
• You hold at least one Red Hat professional certification (RHCE, RHCSA,…)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with cloud solutions in Red Hat OpenShift
• Experience in building cloud applications, application development or application modernization
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, and DevOps
• Experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or similar and JavaScript
• Development experience in Java and other languages
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Knowledge of application architecture (application servers, integration patterns, microservices, JEE, CI/CD, build management etc.)
• Knowledge of and experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent communication skills;
• Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In 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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

IBM’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.

IBM 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.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.