Application Consultant

**Introduction**
IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives.
You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change.
We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
Prepares gap analysis document and / or design a proposed DevOps adoption roadmap; use to analyze the clients' IT environment for achieving better efficiency using DevOps methodology and tools in conventional or Cloud environments.
Architect the DevOps tooling infrastructure and define the interface requirements among the various tool sets.
Analyzes the software build and deploy requirements for a project; portfolio or account and define the architecture using the necessary IBM and non IBM software tools like Rational RTC BuildForge or Urbancode uDeploy.
Analyzes the software Deployment & Release requirements for a project; portfolio or account and design the deployment / release management strategy using the necessary IBM and non IBM software tools like Rational uRelease.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**:

- You will be responsible for integration of DevOps practices into the projects and across the various platforms.
- You will support the cloud transformation and cloud development initiatives, following the best practices.
- You will be implementing the automation processes based on the DevOps philosophy.
- Analyze performance issues while providing technical consultation and inquiries from the other IT technical teams.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- At least 3+ years of experience in developing and managing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- Experience in Azure.
DevOps and Kubernetes.
- Hands on experience in container technology stack including Kubernetes, Docker, Buildah, Helm.
- Experience in managing container workload orchestration using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or equivalent is a must.
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Any relevant certification in Azure.
- Hands on experience with any monitoring tools like NewRelic, DataDog, AppDynamics.
- Good stakeholder relationship management and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in cloud transformation.
- Demonstrated experience in OpenStack or OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated experience in Agile approach.
- Demonstrated experience in continuous testing and testing automation.
- Demonstrated experience in security and networking.
**About Business Unit**

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy.
IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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.
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This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.
**About IBM**

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