Delivery Consultant

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Delivery Consultants - Storage Systems, will be part of the Worldwide Technology Expert Labs team engaged in providing specialist services on IBM Storage Systems' portfolio around the world. Delivery consultant role is for highly skilled expert with a deep knowledge of IBM's Storage software portfolio and Hardware products.
The role demands deep skill and strong hands-on skills in one or more of the following subject matter areas:

• Enterprise Storage, IBM DS8000, IBM Flash System Products,ESS, Spectrum Scale, SAN Networking and Tape products, Spectrum Protect
• Exposure to Containers and Kubernetes technology

The Technology Expert Labs delivery consultant assume overall technical responsibility for the success of solution construction, implementation and system integration in a technology, industry or business specialty. Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements. Provide technical expertise for the Client engagements and responsible for designing and deploying the solution. Collaborate with the technical consultants across other geos to create new assets. Design and implementation of infrastructure solutions on IBM Storage Software Portfolio & Hardware Systems and related technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 7+ years of functional experience in the Storage and Backup Domain
• Extensive understanding of Storage concepts including Storage Architecture, Fiber Channel,iSCSI, NVMe
• Hands-On experience in managing multi-vendor Enterprise Class Storage Systems (Block, NAS, SAN Switches) such as IBM DS8000 Series / EMC VMAX / HDS VSP / IBM SAN Volume Controller / Spectrum Scale/ IBM Flash Systems
• Experience with Hybrid Storage Solutions
• Must have experience in Storage Automation and understanding of scripting day to day tasks
• Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning and Deployment including Storage Replication, Point in time Copy
• Good Communication Skills both written and Verbal
• Experience in Storage Performance Troubleshooting
• Must be an innovative thinker who can take any business problem and quickly come up with a way to sketch out architecture block diagrams using IBM and open source technologies.
• Be able to quickly differentiate IBM solution against competitive solutions and articulate the IBM value to client teams and clients and help win the deal for IBM.
• Strong executive presence, communications, and business acumen skills to advise LOB executives

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven soft skills, analytical skills, team player, excel skills and end user support
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
• Experience on Backup Solutions
• Well versed with IBM or other vendors SRM Solutions
• Certified on Brocade/Cisco SAN
• Certified on IBM / Other Vendor Storage Systems
• Industry experience in Banking /Telecom/ Manufacturing
• Certified on Kubernetes and/or Redhat OCP