Sr. Cloud Consultant

Company: IBM Computing
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 4, 2025

Job Description:

IntroductionJoining 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 responsibilitiesAs a Cloud Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology 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. A typical day may include, but is not limited to---

• Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them reach true business value by working through 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 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 navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions.
• Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative, and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Exhibiting strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM teams.This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.Required technical and professional expertiseWork with Hiring Manager to identify up to 5 key bullets. Examples include:
  • IBM Infrastructure Solutions Expertise: Familiar with the design, deployment, and optimization of infrastructure solutions for IBM zSystems, z/OS, and IBM DS8000 storage, including Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) resiliency solutions for zSystems sysplex, server/storage replication, and automation.Preferred technical and professional experienceWork with Hiring Manager to identify up to 3 key bullets. Examples include:
    • IBM i Expertise: Requires an expert technical level in IBM i operating system, Db2 for IBM i, and systems software such as PowerVM, PowerVC, and PowerHA, or equivalent enterprise solutions.IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM also complies with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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