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IBM Infrastructure Specialist-System Administration in Bangalore, India
Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your role and responsibilities
As an Infrastructure Specialist in System Administration, you will provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless operations across various applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components. You will play a critical role in building, setting up, and maintaining cloud applications, infrastructure, and networking. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Provide Technical Support: Deliver 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless operations across various applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components. • Develop and Configure Infrastructure: Develop and configure infrastructure and configuration as code using Ansible and Terraform, and administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers. • Ensure System Security: Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, identify and fix technical problems, and install software updates and fixes. • Manage Cloud Applications: Manage Application ID, provide cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements, and ensure DR and manual redundancy failover capabilities. • Analyze and Resolve Issues: Identify and resolve issues involving APIs, application services, and infrastructure problems, and escalate issues to the appropriate support level when necessary.
Required technical and professional expertise
• Cloud-Based Solution Support: Exposure to providing 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, including troubleshooting and resolving issues across various applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components. • Infrastructure Configuration: Experience working with infrastructure and configuration as code using Ansible and Terraform, including administering Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers. • Database Administration: Exposure to installing and configuring databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, and PostgreSQL, including ensuring database security and performance. • Cloud Security: Experience working with cloud security features, including load balancing and CDN options provided by multiple cloud vendors, such as Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway. • Logging Cluster Management: Exposure to installing and maintaining a logging cluster using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana to parse logs from applications and Docker containers.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Familiarity with ITIL Processes: Exposure to ITIL processes and Integrated Service Level Management, including service management reports to keep clients informed. • Knowledge of Kubernetes Nodes: Experience working with Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, and middleware components. • Cloud Application Architecture: Exposure to cloud application architecture, including performing initial analysis on incidents and identifying potential issues.
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