Storage Delivery Consultant

Introduction

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Storage Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Storage 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.

If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to...

• 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 towards 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 Technical and Professional Expertise

Storage Technology Skills:

In order to apply for this position, the following knowledge is a must:

• Candidate shound have, at least, one year of hands-on experience managing Storage solutions. Including but not limited to Storage planning and desing, installation, configuration and management storage solutions.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills with experience in OS system administration, Storage Volume management, debugging, package manager (rpm and dpkg), user management, OS based permissions. Fluent using the CLI.
• Knowledge about Containers technology, like K8s and OpenShift
• Experience with NAS based solutions
• Experience managing Broadcom or Cisco SAN solutions
• Strong networking knowledge, from a concept point of view, like switching, routing, firewalls, proxy, vlan managing, etc. (hands-on experience is not required).

Fluent in english and teamwork.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Expertise in IBM Storage Offerings:

Knowledge in the followign technologies is a plus for this position:

• Official certification managing or administering Linux solutions, like RedHat or Suse Linux.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift Container Platform.
• Storage, SAN or Networking certifications
• Hands-on experience installing and managing IP based networks

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