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
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
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Your role and responsibilities
The DevOps Consultant works with clients to assess their current software development and delivery processes, identify areas for improvement, and implement DevOps strategies, tools, and practices. This role requires a blend of technical knowledge, facilitation skills, and a deep understanding of both development and operations practices.
Responsibilities:
• Assessment and strategy: Evaluate clients' existing development, operations, and delivery processes, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. Develop tailored DevOps strategies and roadmaps to address these issues.
• Tool selection and implementation: Recommend, evaluate, and implement DevOps tools and technologies, such as version control systems, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), containerization, and monitoring tools.
• Process improvement: Facilitate continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies, recommending process enhancements, and driving a culture of collaboration and automation.
• Training and mentoring: Provide training, workshops, and mentoring to clients' development, operations, and quality assurance teams on DevOps principles, tools, and best practices.
• Collaboration and communication: Foster a collaborative environment between development, operations, and quality assurance teams, ensuring seamless communication, information sharing, and alignment on goals.
• Automation: Champion automation in all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle, from code commits to production deployments, testing, and monitoring.
• Cloud adoption: Assist clients in migrating and managing their workloads in cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native services and DevOps practices to optimize infrastructure and application deployment.
• Performance optimization: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of clients' applications and infrastructure.
• Security integration: Collaborate with clients to integrate security practices and tools into their DevOps lifecycle, ensuring secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and threat mitigation.
• Stakeholder management: Act as a liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into actionable recommendations and reporting on project status, risks, and progress.
• Qualifications:
• Proven experience: Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Consultant or similar role, with a strong background in both development and operations (with at least 2-3 years experience in DevOps implementation projects)
• DevOps certifications: Hold relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - (this is preferred but not required)
• Technical knowledge: Deep understanding of development, operations, and automation principles, with expertise in relevant tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with development, operations, and quality assurance teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual support.
• Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-solving: Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, with a track record of identifying and addressing inefficiencies and bottlenecks in software delivery processes.
• Education: A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing technologies, tools, and client requirements, with a growth mindset focused on continuous learning and improvement.
• Consulting experience: Previous experience as a consultant, advising clients on software development and delivery optimization strategies.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Assessment and strategy: Evaluate clients' existing development, operations, and delivery processes, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. Develop tailored DevOps strategies and roadmaps to address these issues.
• Tool selection and implementation: Recommend, evaluate, and implement DevOps tools and technologies, such as version control systems, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), containerization, and monitoring tools.
• Process improvement: Facilitate continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies, recommending process enhancements, and driving a culture of collaboration and automation.
• Training and mentoring: Provide training, workshops, and mentoring to clients' development, operations, and quality assurance teams on DevOps principles, tools, and best practices.
• Collaboration and communication: Foster a collaborative environment between development, operations, and quality assurance teams, ensuring seamless communication, information sharing, and alignment on goals.
• Automation: Champion automation in all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle, from code commits to production deployments, testing, and monitoring.
• Cloud adoption: Assist clients in migrating and managing their workloads in cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native services and DevOps practices to optimize infrastructure and application deployment.
• Performance optimization: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of clients' applications and infrastructure.
• Security integration: Collaborate with clients to integrate security practices and tools into their DevOps lifecycle, ensuring secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and threat mitigation.
• Stakeholder management: Act as a liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into actionable recommendations and reporting on project status, risks, and progress.
• Qualifications:
• Proven experience: Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Consultant or similar role, with a strong background in both development and operations (with at least 2-3 years experience in DevOps implementation projects)
• DevOps certifications: Hold relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - (this is preferred but not required)
• Technical knowledge: Deep understanding of development, operations, and automation principles, with expertise in relevant tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with development, operations, and quality assurance teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual support.
• Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-solving: Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, with a track record of identifying and addressing inefficiencies and bottlenecks in software delivery processes.
• Education: A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing technologies, tools, and client requirements, with a growth mindset focused on continuous learning and improvement.
• Consulting experience: Previous experience as a consultant, advising clients on software development and delivery optimization strategies.
Preferred technical and professional experience
* Able to monitor SLA, services health, and key metrics, ensuring seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.
* Can collaborate with Application Architects to identify suitable tools for performance, code quality, and code coverage measurement, and defines quality gates in CI/CD pipeline
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