Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work 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 Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged 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 development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your Role And Responsibilities
An Infrastructure Specialist for the AWS Platform is a highly skilled professional responsible for managing and implementing AWS-based infrastructure solutions according to established designs. This role ensures that infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and secure. The specialist has deep proficiency in AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), along with expertise in Linux and VMware environments.
Responsibilities include setting up, configuring, and managing AWS EC2 instances, storage solutions, networking, and databases to effectively support business applications. The specialist implements and oversees essential AWS resources such as Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), and Application Load Balancers (ALBs) to ensure smooth operations. They continuously monitor AWS infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations to ensure reliable performance.
The specialist applies and enforces security measures to ensure AWS infrastructure complies with organizational policies and industry regulations. They optimize AWS costs by right-sizing resources, developing cost-effective solutions, and monitoring usage patterns. Collaboration with IT teams is key to implementing and integrating AWS infrastructure solutions based on existing designs.
Experience with DevOps practices, such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), is required. The specialist should be skilled in using automation tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible to automate and streamline processes. Experience with cloud migration projects, including implementation and execution, is also necessary. Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is crucial for effective container orchestration and scaling.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Enhancing AWS Expertise: Grow your experience with AWS by designing next-generation cloud native applications, sophisticated system integrations or ambitious cloud migration projects.
- Crafting Practical IT Solutions: Build pragmatic IT solutions for real world problems and create value for our customers.
- Facilitating Team Growth: Support your team and our customers by coaching and teaching across different technology stacks.
