Platform Engineer - Client Engineering

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 development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales environment 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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Platform Engineer within IBM Client Engineering, you'll play a key role in delivering unique client co-creation experiences with cross-functional teams to realize the full potential of our hybrid cloud and AI solutions to prove business value to our clients and accelerate their transformation. From identification of requirements to technical decisions impacting the business case, you'll lead all aspects of integrated solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

1. Cloud Expertise: Combine contemporary cloud skills, including AI, analytics, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, security, networking, and storage, with deep industry expertise and a deep understanding of your dedicated set of clients' businesses.
2. Value Communication: Define and communicate the differentiated value of IBM's technology both technically and commercially.
3. Technical Leadership: Act as the overall technical single point of contact for client sessions that encompass a broad range of public and hybrid cloud technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM hybrid cloud solutions portfolio and Kubernetes, among others.
4. Solution Support: Support the solutions architecture plan while participating as a hands-on "builder" in client-facing engagements.
5. Security and Reliability: Provide advice to ensure that solution architecture includes provisions for security, reliability, and anticipated future needs.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

1. Agile Proficiency: Deep understanding and demonstrable application of Agile best practices.
2. Solution Expertise: Technical expertise in a cloud-related solution domain such as Data/Analytics, Data Science, Security, or other cloud-native, hybrid, or public-cloud technology.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

1. Client Relationship Building: Developing deep, collaborative client relationships at all levels within organizations.
2. Cloud Platform Expertise: Experience in architecting, deploying, and operating solutions built on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.

About Business Unit

Client Engineering within IBM Technology Sales is about proactive initiative, controlled speed and positive impact to clients. Moving fast, we've a bias for action, and an obsession to support our clients overcome their hardest problems through fast-paced and agile co-creative experiences.

In a world where technology moves at speed, it's essential that we stay ahead of the curve to provide tailored solutions from across IBM's whole product suite, that meet our clients' needs.

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 every day, 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.

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.

Location Statement

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.

Being You @ IBM

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, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.