Platform Engineer – Client Engineering

Technology sales at IBM is evolving its way of working to break beyond boundaries with innovative approaches. Preferring to ‘show’ vs. ‘tell’, Client Engineering co-creates with clients, in real-time, on solutions to solve their hardest business challenges.

As a Platform Engineer within Client Engineering, you’ll be a key player in a multi-disciplinary team made up of Architects, AI Engineers, Designers, and Business Technology Leaders.  The brightest and creative minds collaborating with clients as one team and contributing to experiential working sessions and builds. The outputs of which produce pilots that lead to the deployment of enterprise-scale solutions at start-up speed.

Excellent onboarding training will set you up for success, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always part of a team, you’ll be surrounded by leaders and colleagues who are always willing to help and be helped – as you support pilots that compel clients to invest in IBM’s products and services.

As a Platform Engineer (m/f/x) within IBM Client Engineering, you'll play a key role in delivering unique client co-creation experiences to accelerate their transformation. You'll be involved in all aspects of integrated solutions, from identifying requirements to making technical decisions that impact the business case. Your role as a Platform Engineer will be to work with cross-functional teams to realize the full potential of our hybrid cloud and AI solutions to prove business value to our clients.

We are committed to your success. If this role aligns with your career goals, your day to day contributions will help both your career and our clients to thrive. Here's what a typical day might look like:

• Build web applications in a team together with IT architects, AI engineers and designers in an agile environment & deploy your containerized application in a cloud environment.
• Leverage contemporary hybrid cloud skills (e.g., AI, analytics, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, automation, security, networking, and storage) with deep industry expertise and an understanding of your clients’ businesses.
• Define and communicate the unique value of IBM’s technology, both technically and commercially.
• Participate in client sessions that include a range of public and hybrid cloud technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Paks, and Kubernetes.
• Support the solutions architecture plan and be a hands-on "builder" during client-facing engagements.
• Advice on solution architecture to align with platform best practices, with a focus on our clients target environment to ease transition to deployment.
• Work with deployment teams to transition platform assets and information to provide seamless transitions for our clients.

• Experience with cloud and AI technologies.
• Practical knowledge and experience with virtualized on-premise and cloud-based computing platforms.
• Experience in building application and infrastructure deployment automation workflows.
• Experience in participating in customer-facing technical solutions teams across various cloud architectures.
• Experience in a cloud-related domain such as Data/Analytics, Data Science, Security, or other cloud-native, hybrid, or public-cloud technology.
• Experience with at least one common cloud native programming language (Java, Python, HCL, Rust, Ansible, etc.).
• Fluent German and English skills.