Strategy Consultant-Cloud Platforms

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. As an Application Consultant specializing in Cloud, you will advise clients on application development methodologies and tools with a focus on hybrid cloud and container-based cloud applications. You will work closely with senior-level resources on assigned development and deployment activities, leveraging your expertise in cloud-native development principles, containers, and serverless computing. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design and Implement Cloud Architectures: Lead the implementation of cloud architectures during project delivery and solutioning phases, ensuring uptime, access control, network security, and automation using configuration management tools. • Develop and Deploy Cloud Applications: Assist in designing, building, and maintaining containerized hybrid cloud environments, applying software architecture fundamentals, tools, and methodologies for cloud-native development. • Provide Consultation Services: Act as a consultant to clients, guiding them in selecting the most suitable cloud solutions and mapping existing components and functionalities to cloud-native services across different providers. • Deliver Legacy Modernization Solutions: Design modernization architecture solutions from legacy platforms, applying expertise in continuous modernization strategies, co-existence architecture, refactoring, containerization, API development, microservices creation, language conversion, and database conversion. • Collaborate on Project Execution: Work with senior-level resources on assigned development and deployment activities, ensuring successful project execution and solution delivery. • Cloud Development Methodologies: Exposure to application development methodologies and tools with a focus on hybrid cloud and container-based cloud applications, including designing, building, and maintaining containerized hybrid cloud environments. • Cloud-Native Development: Experience working with cloud-native development principles, containers, and serverless computing, with expertise in at least one technology such as Node.js, Spring Boot, or Spring Cloud. • API and Microservices Architecture: Exposure to API and microservices-based architecture implementation, with understanding of cloud-native services across multiple cloud providers. • Legacy Modernization: Experience working with legacy modernization solution delivery, including designing modernization architecture solutions from legacy platforms such as mainframe, iSeries, Solaris, and VAX/VMS. • Cloud Service Mapping: Exposure to mapping existing components and functionalities to cloud-native services across different providers, understanding the advantages and trade-offs of various cloud services. • Proficiency in Multiple Cloud Providers: Exposure to cloud platform components and services across multiple cloud providers, with an understanding of their advantages and trade-offs. • Strong Understanding of Application Components: Experience working with application components such as Systems of Engagement (SOE), Systems of Insight (SOI), Systems of Integration (SOI), and Systems of Record (SOR). • Continuous Modernization Strategies: Exposure to continuous modernization strategies, co-existence architecture, refactoring, containerization, API development, microservices creation, language conversion, and database conversion.