Platform Engineer

IBM

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead client builds across OpenShift, AWS, Azure and GCP, setting technical direction and enterprise-scale delivery. You will drive architecture, security baselines, GitOps and IaC while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.

You’ll mentor engineers, guide solutioning, and help pilots scale into production deployments, including AI workloads with GPUs and model serving.

Qualifications

Proven delivery across two or more public cloud platforms (OpenShift, AWS, Azure, GCP).
Hands-on experience delivering production solutions in live client environments at enterprise scale.
Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift; strong IaC and GitOps discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead client co-creation sessions across public and hybrid cloud; set technical direction and build standards (GitOps, IaC).
Shape AI platform approach including model serving and GPU capacity; advise stakeholders on technical and commercial value.
Mentor engineers, support solutioning, and ensure smooth transition for client delivery.

Skills

OCP

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD

Tekton

AI/ML

GPU

watsonx

Security Baselines

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

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

IBM Consulting prefers to show, not tell, co-creating with clients in real time to solve their hardest hybrid cloud and AI challenges. As a Platform Engineer in our Hybrid Cloud & AI practice, you'll lead from the front: the technical face of the engagement, the hands‑on builder who sets direction, and the mentor who lifts the squad around you.

You’ll lead client builds across OpenShift (OCP), AWS, Azure, and GCP — taking pilots to enterprise-scale deployment at start‑up speed, as part of a multi-disciplinary team of Forward Deployment Architects, Forward Deployment Engineers, and Business/Sales Technology Leaders.

Your role and responsibilities: Your typical day as a Platform Engineer may look like:

Leading client co-creation sessions across public and hybrid cloud — OCP, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes — and being the hands‑on builder who proves the solution. Setting the technical direction for delivery: architecture, security baselines, GitOps, and IaC standards the squad builds to.
Shaping the AI platform approach — model serving, GPU capacity, agentic runtimes, and the governance controls regulated workloads demand. Acting as the trusted technical advisor to client stakeholders, communicating differentiated value both technically and commercially.
Mentoring engineers, supporting solutioning, and ensuring a clean transition so clients sustain what you deliver.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

A technical degree and/or hyperscaler certification (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent experience.
Deep, hands‑on experience delivering production solutions in live client environments at enterprise scale.
Proven delivery across two or more of OCP, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
Strong IaC and GitOps discipline: Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Tekton.
Experience operating or integrating AI/ML or LLM workloads (model serving, GPU infrastructure, or watsonx).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Advanced Security Knowledge: Experience with security technologies and risk management principles to provide expert advice on infrastructure security and risk mitigation.
IT Service Management: Experience in IT service management frameworks and methodologies, such as ITIL, to ensure high-quality technical support and process compliance.
Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms, such as provisioning, deployment, and management of cloud-based infrastructure products.

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.

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

Job Title

Job ID

123334

City / Township / Village

MELBOURNE, SYDNEY

State / Province

Country

Australia

Work arrangement

Hybrid