IBM Looking for Cloud Specialist Solution Architect at New Delhi, Delhi Full Time

Introduction

At IBM, Technical Solution Architects work to understand needs and then create complex high-quality solutions that make meaningful impact. You’ll be responsible for overall leadership and delivery of the solutions from requirement gathering through implementation. You’ll use your in-depth knowledge of leading-edge products and technologies along with industry and business skills to influence outcomes.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Cloud Specialist Solutions Architect as part of the Solution Centre to join us in Bangalore/Mumbai/Delhi. In this role, you’ll work closely with the regional account team to achieve sales and revenue goals, evaluate technical requirements of new sales opportunities, and develop technical solutions that can successfully meet the needs of prospective customers. You will promote our innovative cloud solutions, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, OpenShift by Red Hat, and Red Hat Virtualization. As a Cloud Specialist Solutions Architect, you’ll need a combination of customer-facing skills and in-depth technical knowledge because you will act as the customers’ advocate within Red Hat to develop appropriate solutions and ensure that they are implemented in an innovative and reliable way.

Responsibilities:
This role requires hands-on experience to Implement and build POC and customized Demo’s. People need to have experience to run discovery sessions on customer Cloud/Infra landscape and clearly recommend innovative strategies.

Partner with sales specialists within a designated territory and act as the technical point of contact for customer opportunities

Develop and implement cloud sales strategies to help ensure Red Hat’s objectives are met

Present Red Hat solutions and technical proposals to prospects and customers

Guide the gathering of architecture and design, as well as the presentation of solutions to meet the customer’s needs through workshops and other activities

Support pre-sales workshops, demonstrations, proofs of concepts, evaluations, and benchmarks

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Total 10 to 12 Years with at least 5 years Linux System administration experience. 2 to 3 years of experience in deploying and managing Networks / hybrid cloud.

Experience with Linux administration ( Windows min) in the areas of system administration, integration, networking, or development. RHEL certifications (RHCE & RHCSA).

Experience in configuring/managing networks and complex software implementation & integration. Any certifications in network admin is added value.

Experience with Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat OpenShift and Experience working with virtualization technologies, or a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification. Excellent knowledge of virtualization platforms like Red Hat Virtualization, KVM, VMware, and Microsoft Hyper-V

Cloud Platforms) Experience in extending the capability of product features with scripting using Perl, Python or Yaml. Any major projects executed would be plus.

Working experience with designing and deploying cloud platforms using cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenSTack/OpenShift Platform, VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure

experience in IT automation using Ansible or any other automation solution also building analytics, reporting and selfcare.

Experience in implementing complex enterprise solutions and architectures. Telco – NFV.. BFI – DevOps, Data Lake, Software Defined resource (n/w, storage)

Experience in complementary datacenter and cloud technologies, including switching, routing, and enterprise storage systems

Required Certifications:
Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) or Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Minimum of two relevant certifications related to the specialization either vertical or products based. * List below

Cloud Cert List

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Developer – Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS Technical Professional

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-534)

Microsoft Certified Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure fundamentals

Azure AI Engineer Associate

Azure Administrator Associate

Google Certified Professional – Cloud Architect

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate (ACA)

Alibaba Cloud Certified Expert (ACE)

Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional (ACP)

About Business Unit

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

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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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About IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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