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 skills development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales engagement model 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.
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Your role and responsibilities
As a Platform Engineer within IBM Client Engineering, you will play a key role in delivering unique client co-creation experiences to accelerate their digital transformation. You will be involved in all aspects of integrated solutions, from identifying requirements to making technical decisions that impact the business case. As a Platform Engineer, you will work as an integral part of cross-functional teams to realize the full potential of our hybrid cloud and AI solutions providing business value to our clients.
We are committed to your success. If this role aligns with your career. Your typical day as a Platform Engineer may 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.
- Collaborate with other teams within IBM and participate in client sessions that include a range of automation and hybrid cloud technologies
- 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 education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Hands-on experience with a wide range of cloud and automation technologies.
- Practical knowledge and direct experience with virtualized on-premise and cloud-based computing platforms.
- Experience in building application and infrastructure deployment automation workflows.
- Technical experience in a cloud-related domain such as automation, cloud native, hybrid, or public-cloud technology, such as such as Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes, WebSphere, MQ, Kafka, HashiCorp, Elastic, IT Automation and so on.
- Understanding and practical application of Agile best practices.
- Proficient in at least one common cloud native programming language (Java, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, HCL, Rust, Ansible, etc.)
Additional requirements:
- You will have completed your tertiary studies by March 2025 OR have graduated from a Singaporean University no earlier than 2023.
- You are an Singaporean Citizen/Permanent Resident.
You studied a technical degree i.e., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or an equivalent subject. - You will have excellent communication and presentation skills that are equally engaging, compelling, and influential.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience in deploying and operating solutions on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.
- 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).
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
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?
ABOUT IBM
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.
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