Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Collaboratively plan, design, develop, publish, and maintain automation assets to provision and configure cloud platform resources on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure hypervisors
• Develop continuous delivery pipelines using DevOps and GitOps principles and practices
• Influence architecture and design to continuously improve security, performance, and resiliency of the defined platform engineering solutions
• Publish reference architecture, best practices, and technical documentation to design and deploy customized environments and landing zones for Hybrid and Multicloud solutions
• Be hands-on with coding and troubleshoot. Collaboratively plan, design, develop, publish, and maintain automation assets to provision and configure cloud platform resources on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure hypervisors
• Develop continuous delivery pipelines using DevOps and GitOps principles and practices
• Influence architecture and design to continuously improve security, performance, and resiliency of the defined platform engineering solutions
• Publish reference architecture, best practices, and technical documentation to design and deploy customized environments and landing zones for Hybrid and Multicloud solutions
• Be hands-on with coding and troubleshooting skills. Should be self-driven and manage competing priorities with a bias for action

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+ years of work experience as a Cloud Solutions Engineer with development and/or deployment of cloud application workloads to AWS/Azure/IBM Cloud platforms
• 4+ years of experience in automation scripts development using Terraform, Ansible, and AWS Cloud Formation
• 4+ years of Python or GoLang programming experience
• 4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes platform and writing K8s resource manifests and Helm packages.
• 3+ years of development experience with Tekton or Jenkins pipelines.
• Strong understanding of GitOps-based pipeline design and development.
• One or more certifications in OpenShift, AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, GCP or Hashicorp Terraform
• Hands-on experience or proficiency in Pulumi, Portworx, OCS/ODF

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 7+ years of experience as a Cloud Solutions Engineer with solution architecture, design, development and deployment of cloud application workloads to AWS/Azure/IBM Cloud platforms
• Strong hands-on experience with designing and deploying solutions using Software-defined Network and Storage technologies.
• Proficiency in designing and deploying HPC or large-scale computing solutions on AWS/Azure/IBM Cloud hyperscalers.
• Hands-on experience in OpenShift administration including provisioning, operating and maintaining OpenShift clusters utilizing various provisioning, monitoring, logging and reporting tools
• Hands-on experience in configuring and deploying OpenShift control and data planes with setup and configuration of authentication and role-based access control in OpenShift.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux CD