Your Role and Responsibilities

Cloud Advisory Consultant/Architect - Wellington

As the Cloud Advisory professional you will help to confirm and accelerate our client’s cloud adoption journeys, to meet the growing demand for agile and cost-effective IT solutions.
You will analyse as-is and plan to-be architectures, develop business cases and roadmaps, and help executing transformation programs to cloud based solutions.
Using both private and public cloud technologies, our consulting professionals also architect and implement scalable, highly performing and reliable mission-critical cloud technology solutions that meet the needs of today’s corporate and digital applications.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Be:
 

• Discuss cloud best practices and new ways of delivering IT services on multi-cloud platforms with clients
• Provide guidance to clients across multiple cloud topics including Kubernetes, Red Hat solutions, Security, etc.
• Develop Cloud strategies, architectures, cloud adoption roadmaps, operating models, benefits realization plans with clients
• Showcase expected benefits and risks of cloud transformation journeys
• Develop cloud enablement and cloud migration plans
• Liaise with cloud ecosystem partners to craft solutions that achieve the client’s business objectives
• Provide technical or consulting expertise to ensure the successful delivery of projects
• Manage cloud consulting, advisory, or delivery workstreams or projects
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients
• Build trusted, long-term client relationships enabling mutual success
• Assist junior team members to grow their careers
   

Your Basic Qualifications Will Include:
 

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience working in a technical consulting or IT Strategy role
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong team leadership and demonstrated ability to share knowledge with broader team
• Business analysis or business case development skills
• Strong consulting skills and proven working experience on diverse IT Strategy, CIO Advisory, Cloud Strategy and Application Portfolio Rationalization engagements
• Project and stakeholder expectation management skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel Skills. Should be able to articulate issues and suggestions strongly and creatively to drive meaningful outcomes
• Well versed in multiple cloud and container platform technologies
• Motivated and passionate about Cloud technologies and services

You Will Have These Skills and Experience across at least 2 of the following disciplines:Preferred Skills

• Previous Consulting or client service delivery experience.
• Certifications related to cloud / infrastructure technologies
• Public and private cloud discovery, design, build, and migration experience.
• Architectural exposure to Windows, LINUX, UNIX, VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, IIS Server, SAN, NAS, VCE/FlexPod, and similar technologies.
• Technical/Team Leadership Experience
• Container platform experience/certification is preferred
• Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems
• “New” way of delivering and operating solutions - Agile delivery, Design Thinking, DevOps

Ready to join us?

To be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and leaders - people who want to make an impact, share their expertise and collaborate with some of the world’s top business and technology professionals.  Keep reading.

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If you tick these boxes and are ready to start your next challenge with a career at IBM – click “Apply” today. To find out more, head to www.ibm.com.au/careers
 

Introduction

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Cloud Advisory Consultant/Architect - Wellington

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Cloud Advisory Consultant/Architect - Wellington

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Eligibility Requirements

New Zealand Resident

About Business Unit

Digitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds - public, private, and hybrid - enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client’s data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.

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