Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by 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 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.
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Your role and responsibilities
The project you will be working on will be in support of maintaining current on-premises networking while supporting cloud migration. Work will be performed onsite in a SCIF in Washington, DC
Additional tasks include:
- Responsible for troubleshooting network incidents, providing root cause analysis and documenting information in tickets and knowledge repositories
- Help to establish cloud-based network architecture based upon business requirements, for cloud migrations, while maintaining architectural best practices
- Analyze and adapt existing network infrastructure and network implementations to function in a cloud-based environment using cost-effective best practices
- Provide expert-level guidance to supervisory staff on networking considerations for cloud migrations and new infrastructure
- Provide all necessary documentation to detail networking and cloud infrastructure designs
- Develop, implement, and manage network engineering processes including configuration management and design standards to ensure compliance, relevancy, and sustainability
- Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
- Clearance: Must currently hold and have the ability to maintain Top Secret and be SCI eligible
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 10+ years of experience managing enterprise network infrastructures
- Experience with Cisco Networking, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Routers, LAN, WAN, and nodes
- Experience with General Dynamics TACLANE
- Experience with WireShark, Solarwinds and other analysis tools
- Expert-level experience in networking principles and protocols such as IP subnetting, routing, security and encryption, DNS, etc.
- Extensive experience in designing, deploying, managing and monitoring Firewalls such as Cisco ASA, VMware NSX Edge Gateway & distributed firewall, or Palo Alto in an enterprise environment
- Experience in Cloud Networking and Hybrid Networking technologies such as Site to Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute
- Experience architecting network infrastructure that adheres to compliance frameworks such as NIST, CCPA, GDPR, or PCI DSS
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with AWS GovCloud
- Experience with FedRAMP policies, protocols and procedures
- Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, or CISA
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certifications
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
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.
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.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
US Citizenship Required.