Consulting Senior OCP Consultant Professional Krakow, PL

IBM; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 253,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

A globally recognized technology firm is seeking a Delivery Consultant in Krakow to manage OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters and ensure system reliability. The ideal candidate should have at least a year of hands-on experience in cluster administration and a solid background in RHEL-based Linux systems. The role involves client collaboration to deliver tailored IBM technology solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

Industry-leading learning culture

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in cluster administration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Solid background in Linux system administration (RHEL-based).
• Experience with network and infrastructure fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Manage OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters for administration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure stability and security of RHEL/Linux systems.
• Conduct technical solution workshops.

Skills

OpenShift/Kubernetes administration

Linux system administration (RHEL-based)

Network fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Scripting in Bash or Python

Self-Reliance & Ownership

Collaboration and Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Prometheus

Loki

Grafana

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world‑class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you’ll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry‑leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co‑creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

For one of our customers we are currently looking for a skilled System Administrator Consultant with hands‑on experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster administration and a strong background in Linux (RHEL‑based) systems. This role involves operational responsibility, including on‑call duties, and requires a proactive approach to system ownership and reliability, including handling critical cases or maintenance tasks according to the schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters daily management – administration, deployment, configuration, troubleshooting etc.
• Manage RHEL/Linux systems to ensure stability and security
• Handle system operations with full ownership including on‑call rotated support schedule and work on the dedicated product adjustment
• Implementing best practices for network, storage, and infrastructure according to the overall project requirements

Your role and responsibilities

As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world‑class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem‑solving issue‑ / hypothesis‑based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

• Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration and product support with a sense of urgency.
• Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day‑two operations.
• Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
• Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels—from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• Self‑Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias toward self‑motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum 1 year of hands‑on experience in cluster administration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) in a project
• Solid background in Linux system administration (RHEL‑based) including:
• Network and Infrastructure Fundamentals (routing, DNS, storage, load balancing, etc.)
• Monitoring & Observability (optional): Prometheus, Loki, Grafana

Non‑Technical / Soft Skills

• Self‑Reliance & Ownership– takes responsibility for systems and assigned domains
• Willingness to Learn– open to adopting new tools, technologies, and processes
• Attention to Detail & Reliability – ensures quality and consistency in production environments
• Team Collaboration – works effectively with Dev, Ops, and Security teams
• Communication Skills clear coordination within technical operations

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced OpenShift/Kubernetes Expertise – experience with multi‑cluster environments including performance tuning
• Linux System Administration and Optimization– proficiency in tasks related to kernel tuning, package management and troubleshooting of the complex issues
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – familiarity with automation frameworks like Ansible, Terraform or others
• Cloud & Virtualization Knowledge – exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or any of virtualization technologies
• Monitoring/Observability – hands‑on experience in alerting strategies
• Scripting/Automation – ability to create scripts in Bash, Python, or other languages for operational tasks
• Security Best Practices – understanding of container security, RBAC, and compliance standards.
• Performance & Capacity Planning – experience in scaling clusters and optimizing utilization
• CI/CD Integration – knowledge of integrating OpenShift with pipelines
• German language (as a plus)

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, 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.

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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 500 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 qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Delivery Consultant

Job ID

73562

City / Township / Village

Krakow

State / Province

Country

Poland

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?