Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To
code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To
invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things
you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of
technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so,
lets talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
At IBM Services our Complex Solution Architects (CSA) provides services to
clients in the solutioning and delivery of complex projects/programs for cloud
and non-cloud environment, including complex application and/or system
integration projects. CSAs work with the business as well as IT to breakdown
complex business problems into software or process solutions.
IBM Services is looking for strong CSAs with extensive experience in defining
and building solution in Azure. The CSA should have technical depth and strong
interpersonal skills. He/She should be passionate about working with customers
to help build applications at scale in the Azure Cloud. Enabling Innovation
through Azure services and having breadth across technology stacks with deep
hands on skills is a must. The CSA will build architectures & provide
prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems,
virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Analytics, mid-tier technologies that
include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
The CSA is expected to have deep experience in the below areas
Experience in planning, designing and implementing IT capabilities and
migrating Workloads/applications to Azure
Ability to architect microservices based solution utilizing serverless
Azure Functions
Deep understanding, design and development experience of cloud solutions
with Microsoft Azure Compute and Storage Services, Azure Analytics, Cosmo
DB, Azure API Management, Azure AD, Azure Container Registry and Azure App
Services
An understanding of IoT technologies including edge compute solutions
Experience with private and public cloud architectures
Experience in software development including roles as a senior architect
in .Net, Azure Technology stack
Implementation experience with distributed applications; working knowledge
of software development, DevOps tools and methodologies
Experience with traditional SDLC and Agile methodology as required
Experience in knowledge transfer process
Deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Salt,
Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Jenkins, etc.)
OpenShift on Azure, ARO, AKS, Azure Functions
SDLC Tools: JIRA, GitHub
Integration Tools: Jenkins, Nexus and Bamboo
Testing Tools: Jenkins, HP Fortify, Serenity, Swagger, Cucumber, Selenium,
SonarQube, JUnit, Pyunit, Open SCAP and Sensu
Search Technologies: Lucene and Elasticsearch
Relational Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, Postgres SQL
NoSQL databases: Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudant
Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Tools: Informatica, DataStage, SSIS,
Talend and Boomi
implementing big data analytics w/ technologies like Hadoop, Spark, EMR,
RedShift, and Kinesis.
Set technology direction for Cloud solutions
Manage and implement integrations between internal and external solutions
Serves as the technical liaison to the Talent Acquisition product owner
Collaborate with domain architecture leadership
Author simple, clear requirements through user stories and technical
specifications
Experience is creating end to end blueprint, estimating the effort,
pricing and risk assessment of the solution
Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level
conversations
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
At least 3 years experience in Azure
At least 3 years experience in Container platforms (K8S, OpenShift, AKS)
and Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
At least 3 years experience in designing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
architectures.
At least 2 year experience in Service Registries and Cloud brokers
At least 2 year experience in designing secure scalable, elastic
architectures
At least 2 year experience in architecting in enterprises using Agile
methodologies
At least 2 year experience in decoupled and microservices architectures
At least 2 year experience in Stateful and Stateless services
At least 2 year experience in web services technologies- Restful services
At least 3 year experience in distributed systems, databases and search
systems
At least 3 year experience in .Net Platforms
At least 3 year experience in collaboration, open communication and
reaching across functional borders
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
At least 5 years experience in Azure
At least 5 years experience in designing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
architectures.
At least 3 years experience in Service Registries and Cloud brokers
At least 3 years experience in designing secure scalable, elastic
architectures
At least 3 years experience in architecting in enterprises using Agile
methodologies
At least 3 years experience in decoupled and microservices architectures
At least 3 years experience in Stateful and Stateless services
At least 3 years experience in web services technologies- Restful services
At least 5 years experience in distributed systems, databases and search
systems
At least 3 year experience in .Net Platforms
Azure Certification : Architect Technologies (300)/ Architect Design
(301)
More Information on IBM
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Armonk, NY, Southbury, CT, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC,
Durham, NC, Tampa, FL, Smyrna, GA, Huntsville, AL, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX and
San Francisco, CA. It has 533854 total employees. It offers perks and benefits
such as Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Disability Insurance, Dental
Benefits, Vision Benefits, Health Insurance Benefits and Life Insurance. To
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