Application Consultant-Site Reliability

IBM; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 215,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Training resources

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an Application Consultant: Site Reliability Engineer to automate platform and infrastructure management tasks and integrate them with application development workflows. You will design automation, build monitoring solutions, and collaborate with development teams to improve reliability and efficiency across systems.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement and strategic reliability planning, with opportunities to influence large-scale environments and adopt best

Qualifications

• Proven automation design for platform and infrastructure management.
• Experience building monitoring solutions to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Experience developing reliability strategies for application functions.
• History of cross-functional collaboration with development teams.
• Demonstrated innovative problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Automate Platform Management: design and implement automation to streamline platform tasks and bridge development with infrastructure.
• Develop Monitoring Solutions: build monitoring to support application functions and reliability.
• Foster Collaboration: work with development teams to integrate automation with workflows.
• Enhance Reliability: create strategies to boost reliability and efficiency via automation and monitoring.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: promote best practices and innovative solutions across teams.

Skills

Automation design

Monitoring solutions

Collaboration with dev teams

Reliability improvement

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Consultant: Site Reliability Engineer, you will specialize in automating platform and infrastructure management tasks, ensuring seamless integration with application development workflows. By employing software development methodologies, you will build automation and monitoring solutions to support application functions, enhancing overall reliability and efficiency.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Automate Platform Management: Design and implement automation solutions to streamline platform and infrastructure management tasks, bridging the gap between application development and infrastructure management.
• Develop Monitoring Solutions: Employ software development methodologies to build monitoring solutions that support application functions, enhancing overall reliability and efficiency.
• Foster Collaboration: Collaborate with application development teams to ensure seamless integration of automation and monitoring solutions with application development workflows.
• Enhance Reliability: Develop strategies to enhance overall reliability and efficiency of application functions through automation and monitoring solutions.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Foster a collaborative environment for continuous improvement, driving the adoption of best practices and innovative solutions.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the United States of America.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Automation: Proven experience in designing and implementing automation solutions for platform and infrastructure management tasks, with a strong understanding of software development methodologies.
• Experience with Monitoring Solutions: A track record of building monitoring solutions that support application functions, with a focus on enhancing overall reliability and efficiency.
• Strategic Reliability Planning: Experience in developing strategies to enhance overall reliability and efficiency of application functions through automation and monitoring solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: A history of successful collaboration with application development teams to ensure seamless integration of automation and monitoring solutions with application development workflows.
• Innovative Problem-Solving: Deep expertise in driving continuous improvement, with a focus on adopting best practices and innovative solutions to complex problems.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced Automation Methodologies: Experience with cutting-edge automation tools and methodologies, enabling the design and implementation of efficient platform and infrastructure management solutions.
• Complex Monitoring Systems: Knowledge of sophisticated monitoring systems that support application functions, enhancing overall reliability and efficiency in large-scale environments.
• Innovative Solution Development: Exposure to developing innovative solutions that drive continuous improvement, leveraging best practices and new technologies to address complex problems.

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 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

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), cash balance pension plan, 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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

215,000.00

291,000.00