Infrastructure Specialist - System Administration

IBM Infrastructure Specialist - System Administration in Bari, Italy

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

The infrastructure running industries like transportation, energy, insurance, banking, or healthcare is quickly changing as the world's relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Infrastructure Specialist, you directly support clients to transform their business by addressing their System and Infrastructure needs with innovative solutions. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM and non-IBM, Cloud and on-premises platforms. In your role, you will be responsible for managing on-premises infrastructure and acting as a liaison among IT Architect, IT Analyst, technical resources, and project stakeholders. Following a well-structured implementation process, you will work with customer requirement gathering, understand risks and client's challenges, carry out a PoC implementation, and route the development toward a solution baseline implementation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, bringing innovation into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools, and technology, and a career path within the world's technology leader company.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 2+ years experience with hands-on delivery and consulting in a client-facing environment, including customer crit-sit support, and strong communication skills for management and client interaction;
• Minimum 2+ years experience in system administration knowledge of Red Hat, Linux, and Windows Server operating systems, such as managing clustered systems;
• Good understanding of networking standards and technologies, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, routing, firewall rules, load balancers, etc;
• Minimum 2+ years experience with JBOSS, IIS, Apache;
• Minimum 2+ years experience with Bash Linux & PowerShell;
• Good understanding of on-premise system monitoring tools;
• Knowledge of Database administration (ORA, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, SQL Server);
• Ability to produce high-quality documentation about solution design;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills;
• Intermediate knowledge of the English language;

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of one or more cloud services (AWS Platform, Azure Platform, Google Platform, IBM Cloud Platform, or Red Hat Platform);
• Understanding of DevOps practices;
• Certifications in system administration (Red Hat, Linux, Microsoft);
• Certifications in a public Cloud platform (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google, IBM Cloud);
• Certifications in orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, RH OpenShift);
• Competencies in Infrastructure as Code;
• Availability to travel is an additional mandatory prerequisite.

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.

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Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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