Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Technical Support Professional, you should have experience in a customer-facing leadership capacity. This role necessitates exceptional customer relationship management skills along with a solid technical grasp of the product/s they will support. The Technical Support Professional is expected to adeptly manage conflicting priorities, thrive under pressure, and autonomously navigate tasks with minimal active guidance. The successful applicant should possess a comprehensive understanding of IBM support, development, and service processes and deliveries. Knowledge of other IBM business procedures and professional training in mediation or conflict resolution would be advantageous. Your primary responsibilities include: Direct Problem-Solving Experience: Previous experience in addressing client issues is valuable, along with a demonstrated ability to effectively resolve problems. Strong Communication Skills: Ability to communicate clearly with both internal and external clients through spoken and written channels. Business Networking Experience: In-depth experience and understanding of the IBM and/or OEM support organizations, facilitating effective networking and collaboration. Excellent Coordination, Leadership & Organizational Skills: Exceptional coordination and organizational abilities, capable of leading diverse teams and multitasking within a team-based business network environment. Proficiency in project management is beneficial. Excellence in Client Service & Client Satisfaction: Personal commitment to pursuing client satisfaction and continuous improvement in the delivery of client problem resolution. Language Skills: Proficiency in English is required, with fluency in multiple languages considered advantageous.
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Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Create up to up to 5 bullets max Software Development and Delivery: Knowledge in roles involving software development and delivery, demonstrating proficiency in delivering software solutions. Cloud/DevOps Engineering and Linux Administration: Knowledge in Cloud/DevOps engineering and/or Linux administration roles, showcasing expertise in cloud infrastructure and Linux systems. Public Cloud or Hybrid Cloud: Knowledge with at least one major public cloud provider or large-scale private/hybrid cloud environments using container orchestration technologies. Configuration Management Framework: Proficiency with a modern configuration management framework such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef, demonstrating expertise in automating infrastructure management. Monitoring Frameworks: Production experience with one or more monitoring frameworks such as Nagios or Prometheus, indicating proficiency in monitoring and maintaining system health.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Create up to 3 bullets max (encouraging then to focus on required skills) Scripting Skills: Strong scripting skills in at least one language such as BASH, Python, or Ruby, showcasing the ability to automate tasks and streamline processes. Source Control Management: Experience with source control management systems such as Git or Subversion, demonstrating proficiency in version control and collaboration. Software Development Life Cycle: Understanding of the software development life cycle and delivery process, ensuring adherence to best practices and efficient project delivery. Project Management and Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to manage multiple projects, ensuring commitments and timetables are met, and partnering with internal stakeholders to design operational solutions.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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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