Job Description

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking, or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premises, off-premises, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Architects are responsible for keeping up with the latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Cloud IaaS is the innovation leader in on-demand dedicated and cloud hosting. As the largest hosting company in the world, IBM Cloud lets customers create dedicated, cloud, or seamlessly integrated computing environments leveraging their world-class data center facilities and network Points of Presence across the globe. IBM Cloud integrates and automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading customer portal and open API.
IBM Cloud has a global network that is deployed using cutting-edge platforms and is looking for a high quality and driven Network Architect for our team within Cloud IaaS
'Network Architect’ will be responsible for:

• Developing network and related architectures and solutions based on requirements from offering, engineering, and operations, as well as key customers.
• Working across the organization to provide technical leadership for the network infrastructure.
• Assessing new technologies and best practices for adoption.
• Driving standardization and automation into all aspects of the network platform.
• Engaging with internal and external customers for briefings, issue escalation, and complex solution development.
• Enabling the extended team’s vitality through training, mentoring, and skills transfer.
• Documenting network capabilities as appropriate for both internal and external consumption.
• Build and utilize lab environments to validate Next-gen DC architectures

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 5 years of experience designing service provider network infrastructures, at scale, e.g., MPLS/BGP, routing, switching, SDN/NFV, EVPN VXLAN, with relevant hands-on experience
• At least 2 years of technical writing and speaking skills.
• Team and business leadership experience

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• A CCIE/JNCIE or comparable certifications.
• 5 years of experience in developing architectures and related validations
• 2 years in python or similar programming language

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.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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