Operations Engineering Architect and Manager

Job Description

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.
Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants enabling enterprises to make smarter decisions and providing unparalleled client and consumer experiences in cognitive, data analytics, cloud technology and mobile app development. With global reach, outcome-focused methodologies and deep industry expertise, IBM GBS empowers clients to digitally reinvent their business and get the competitive edge in the cognitive era in over 170 countries.

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The Public Service Sector consulting practice is a trusted advisor to federal, state and local governments, partnering to meet challenges and responding quickly to citizen demands, business needs, new economic conditions, and changing legislative priorities and policies.

In this exciting role, you will lead the Operations Engineering team (30%)

• Serve as the engineering leader and technical expert.
• Create detailed engineering plans, processes, and procedures to guide engineering staff.
• Monitor and determine staffing and training needs.
• Communicate and collaborate with other managers, suppliers, and contractors.
• Prepare and deliver engineering-related presentations, both internally and externally.
• Provide technical expertise and direction (30%)
• Act as an SME to answer questions and resolve issues brought forth by the engineering team members and other organizations.
• Direct the maintenance and evolution of COTS, hardware, operations tools, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation.
• Direct the maintenance and evolution of the Data Analytics Environment toolset.
• Maintain the quality of Operations Engineering work (20%)
• Check and confirm the accuracy of the work performed and the methods used by engineering staff.
• Drive the implementation of automated testing and verification for IaC-generated environments.
• Conduct technical reviews and quality assurance checks to verify the quality of completed projects.
• Drive initiatives to enhance and evolve infrastructure and operations (20%)
• Spearhead research and development initiatives to identify opportunities for new projects and improved processes.
• Evolve and enhance operations automation for IaC, analytics, and platform modernization.
• Work Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
• Clearance: Active DoD Secret

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Operations Engineer Architecture
• 6+ years of engineering experience, ideally in a management role.
• 6+ years leading IT security efforts to ensure compliance with NIST guidelines, FIPS 140 cryptographic standards, DHS 4300.A policies, and other security standards required for DHS systems remediation.
• Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team.
• IBM systems experience to include P series hardware, Secure Flight Legacy tools.
• AIX, Windows 2016+, UrbanCode, IBM DB2,Splunk, Spark/R/Python/Java/SQL/Perl
• IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Manager,IBM ILOG, Oracle, OBIEE, Infoglide Bladeworks SSE,Informatica v8,IBM Global Name Management (GNM), Gradle, IBM Data Studio, LeanFT, Selenium, Java/J2EE, .NET, PERL, PL/SQL, Eclipse, Web Accessibility Toolbar
• An individual who is familiar with the product/technology but may have less than 1 year of practical experience
• Clearance: Active DoD Secret

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• RedHat Linux, CentOS, Jenkins, Chef(Ruby) CheckMK, OpenIAM, Docker, Hashicorp, Gitlab, OpenLDAP, BIND, MediaWiki, Supermarket, Kea DHCP,Atom,Nexus,IBM WebSphere (MQ, Extreme Scale, Application Server), IBM Data Power, IBM Liberty, LDAP, Bash/Korn Shell Scripting, BURP, IBM Security Access Manager, Security Identity Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Netcool, IBM Systems Director and ITCAM, BigFix, IBM Control Center, Appscan, IBM Information Governance Catalog, Zeppelin/Anaconda/RStudio/SPSS, IBM BigMatch, IBM BigSQL, Hortonworks (HDP, HDFS, Hive, HBase) IBM PureData (Netezza), IBM BigIntegrate
• A Subject Matter Expert (SME) with 3 or more years of in-depth experience.

About Business Unit
IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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