Application Development Platform Specialist

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference. As a Delivery Consultant specializing in Technology Expert Labs for Application Development within IBM's Automation Platform, you will provide clients with world-class services to optimize the configuration, deployment, adoption, usage, and analysis of their Application Development products. This role involves delivering expert services to help clients achieve maximum value from their technology investments. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Lead Client Engagements: Manage and deliver consulting services to clients, ensuring successful adoption and usage of Application Development products, including Cloud Pak for Applications, DevOps, and WebSphere Application Server. • Optimize Product Configuration: Develop and implement optimal configuration and deployment strategies for clients' Application Development products to improve efficiency and effectiveness. • Analyze Client Needs: Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and identify opportunities to improve their Application Development product usage and adoption. • Deliver Solution Implementations: Design and implement solutions to meet clients' specific needs, leveraging expertise in Application Development products and industry best practices. • Provide Expert Guidance: Offer expert advice and guidance to clients on best practices for Application Development product usage, adoption, and maintenance. Must have minimum 12-18 year’s experience with Container Technologies, Cloud infrastructure Expertise container technologies, Redhat OpenShift, CoreOS, Kubernetes, Cloud skills, and networking protocols. Relevant RedHat certifications is a must Experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Cloud Pak for Application - including its configuration, deployment, adoption, usage, and analysis Strong experience with WAS (Websphere Application Server) Administration, including its optimization and maintenance Strong experience with Liberty / Quarkus / JBoss Perform administrative processes for all cloud systems, including installation, backup, security, array management and software patching Must have strong experience administrating, building & deploying services on Kubernetes/OCP, Ansible cloud management Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Azure. Prefer industry certification (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps / Solutions Architect) Experience working with hosted applications or large-scale application deployments Knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines Good experience with Linux Administration and Linux Tools, with an emphasis on curl, strace, wireshark and using git Good understanding of Unix and Windows platforms and IP networks Proficiency in networking skills, such as UDP and TCP Troubleshoot technical issues (networking, web apps, operating system, file system and user management) in the deployment of high-speed file transfer software in enterprise Knowledge of Windows Active Directory/Group Policy, LDAP, SAML, SSO, etc. Scripting skills, such as Unix shell, Windows batch, Perl, Ruby or Python Basic skills in database server (MySQL) administration Communication and customer focus skills –be able to understand customer problems and articulate current status to customers Ability to communicate action plans to the client or IBM representative as appropriate Ability to recommend and implement new or improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures, and processes Technical Leadership setting the strategies for Customers and Lead internal customer facing teams  DevOps Expertise: Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, particularly in relation to Application Development products, is advantageous for delivering high-quality consulting services  Good Working knowledge of Terraform, ArgoCD, bitbucket, Github, Gitlab and Ansible for performing DevOps on cloud platforms  Hands-on development experience in one or more modern languages and frameworks: Java/Springboot, Golang, Python, JS/NodeJS, Rust  Proficiency with AI (preferably bob) - understanding the basics of AI, Work with AI to create tasks, Including AI to the work strategies, Automating repeatable tasks with AI  Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools: DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Geneos, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, Splunk  Experience working with hosted applications or large-scale application deployments India Consulting Hybrid Professional Multiple Cities