Infrastructure Specialist: System Administration

Introduction
In this role, you will 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.

A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You will collaborate with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including IBM Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you will be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Infrastructure Specialist at IBM, you will support the infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking, or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward
Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. As an Infrastructure Specialist, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest changes, using your expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our clients and products. In your role you may be responsible for:

• Define, analyse, and review technical architecture on required platform and coming up with architecture options and recommendations
• Define, detail, and scope the technical requirements into solutions
• Work across key activities in configuration, systems management tools and backup and recovery
• Support Technical Consultants and lead in building solutions and providing technical mentoring and guidance

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Good demonstration of IBM MQ conceptual understanding, administration, managing MQ environment, troubleshooting, configuration etc
• The administrator will be responsible for collaborating with members of our Technical Delivery Teams and Architecture teams to support and improve the delivery of managed services
• Ability to diagnose defects/issues, and demonstrates triage and problem-solving capability to develop and deliver quality solutions
• Experience in debugging shell scripts and Python programming
• Ability to analyse and evaluate designs and understand process flow
• The administrator will be responsible for:
  • The build, deployment, support, and performance of systems
  • Maintaining compliance to avoid data loss and unauthorized access

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• SSL Administration like certificate renewal and monitoring
• Experience in queue manager configuration and load balancing, security management (OAM), performance and tuning
• Experience with MQ in AIX, Red Hat Linux (RHEL) and Windows servers
• Experience in Managed File Transfers (MFT)
• Configuration, deployments, and vulnerability remediation in multi-tier environments with firewalls, load balancers, and high availability solutions

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Working experience in Cloud (GCP, AWS)
• Knowledge in CI/CD and pipeline automation tools
• Knowledge in Containerisation / Kubernetes / OpenShift