Introduction
As an IBM Cloud Delivery Consultant, you will learn and experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving, hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member in the Technology Expert Labs team, you will participate with IBM Cloud Architects in the design of solutions in the use of IBM Cloud to address our clients' strategic business and technical goals and drive those solutions to fruition through their provision and configure in IBM Cloud.

You will primarily collaborate with our IBM Cloud Architects, Senior Delivery Consultants, business partners and clients to perform the hands-on project work to implement target solution architectures that use IBM Cloud. These projects may include multiple phases from inception, discovery, design, planning, implementation, workload migration, and hand over of the solution to the designated "day 2" operations team. You will provide technical inputs throughout these phases. Solutions are documented as architectures and can include systems, applications, processes, and service components all hosted in IBM Cloud and integrated with client on-premise systems in accordance with their hybrid cloud journey.

• Familiar with design validation of innovative technical approaches based on the IBM Cloud capabilities, or experience with onprem/ aws/gcp solutions.
• Perform installation and configuration of IBM Cloud services, CI/CD and DevOps Toolchain.
• Be a trusted advisor to the client by pro-actively educating and guiding client's understanding and adoption of IBM Cloud technology.
• Engage with key client counterparts as the IBM Cloud technology technical subject matter expert.
• Provide input to create and maintain solution documentation.

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud/multi-cloud networking (including firewalls and load balancers), IBM Cloud IBM Cloud IaaS and Paas services, workload migration tools and methods or other related technologies
• Familiarity with two or more IBM Cloud IaaS and Paas services: VMware, VPC, Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS), IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services (IKS).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible or any automation solution .
• Familiarity with Veeam, Zerto, IBM Cloud block and object storage solutions
• Understanding of implementing IT transformation projects
• Solid understanding of network topologies / subnetting / vlans etc...
• Communicate and implement solution recommendations based on defined solution architecture designs and provide hands-on education regarding the solution.
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly.
• Leadership & relationship skills
• Learn and perform technical project management tasks, and assist project managers in creating and managing an end-to-end project plan
• Ability to work across cross-functional teams to deliver complex IT solutions
• Ability to understand and work in a multi-disciplinary team with multiple stakeholders to implement a defined solution architecture and solution approach
• Self-motivated problem solver who can thrive in dynamic, ambiguous and customer-facing environments
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to effectively communicate information to all levels
  
  Necessary Skills
• Familiarity in IBM Cloud networking including MPLS, VPN, GRE, VPC, DirectLink, Transit Gateway, BGP, Load balancers, Cloud Internet Services.
• Ability in deploying and configuring IBM Cloud firewall solutions such as Juniper, FortiGate, Vyatta.
• Build and configure solutions in VMware, including detailed knowledge of vCenter, vSphere, vMotion, vSAN, NSX and HCX components
• Install and configure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS) or IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS)
• Ability in deploying and configuring IBM Cloud backup solutions such as Veeam, Spectrum Protect etc.
• Ability in the use of workload migration tools such as VMware HCX, VMware vMotion, Veeam, Zerto etc.
• Familiarity in the development of cloud automation using Ansible, Terraform, DevOps etc.

• Familiarity in deploying and configuring IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure and VPC Solutions.

• Familiarity in deploying and configuring IBM Cloud-Native services such as ROKS/IKS.

• Experience in deploying and configuring IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation solutions.

• Ability in learning of deploying and configuring IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center & Workload Protection.
• Familiar with Observability tools such as Instana/ SevOne or other tools.

• Familiar with deploying and configuring IBM Cloud Internetworking services such as Transit Gateway, Direct-Links, Load balancers and Gateway appliances etc.

• Ability in deploying and configuring Backup and Disaster-Recovery solutions such as Veeam, Zerto, Spectrum Protect etc.