A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.Your Role And ResponsibilitiesAnalyze and Resolve Incidents: Analyze and resolve infrastructure‐related incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring prompt restoration of services. This involves identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and verifying resolution.Provision and Deploy Infrastructure: Provision, deploy, configure, and migrate infrastructure products to meet client needs, ensuring seamless integration and minimal disruption to services.Conduct Risk Assessments: Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities, providing recommendations to mitigate risks and enhance overall IT resilience.Manage and Support Infrastructure: Manage and support infrastructure products, ensuring they are running at optimal levels, meeting performance and security requirements, and adhering to process compliance.Ensure Process Compliance: Ensure that all infrastructure‐related activities are performed in accordance with established processes and procedures, meeting SLAs and regulatory requirements.Required Technical And Professional ExpertiseAs an Infrastructure Specialist – Network & Cloud, we are looking for candidates with the following background and skills:Proven experience in the management of complex network infrastructures in Cloud environments, supporting mission‐critical systems and large‐scale architectures.Strong hands‐on experience and a problem‐solving approach highly oriented to troubleshooting and performance tuning, ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability of network services.Advanced skills in network switching and routing, including design, configuration, optimization, and fault resolution.Solid expertise in load balancing systems, network traffic optimization, and high‐availability architectures.Advanced knowledge of network security and firewalling, including policy design, segmentation, hardening, and incident handling.Proven experience in Cloud Networking and Cloud Computing environments, specifically:AWS and GCP networking servicesVPC design and managementSecurity Groups and network access controlTransit Gateway and hybrid connectivity solutionsExcellent knowledge and operational experience with the following technologies and platforms:F5 BIG-IP VECheckpoint Firewall VSXVMware NSXAbility to operate in 2nd and 3rd level support scenarios, managing incidents, changes, and service improvements in line with defined SLAs.Capability to produce technical documentation for internal teams and customers.Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in distributed and customer‐facing teams.Good level of English is required, as the candidate will work directly with international customer teams.Preferred Technical And Professional ExperienceNetworking or Security certifications (e.g. vendor‐specific or cloud‐related).Cloud certifications on AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.Experience in hybrid or multi‐cloud network architectures.Previous experience in consultancy or complex enterprise environments.#J-18808-Ljbffr