IBM Data Power Middleware SME

IBM Data Power Middleware SME

REQUIREMENTS

• Technical degree holder with minimum of 6 years IT experience, at least 5 years of IT Infrastructure experience.

• Must have proven technical experience of working in a complex IT infrastructure environment

• Ability to listen and articulate ideas verbally, and in the written form, to a broad range of audiences; ability to ask probing questions and deliver technical internal presentations

• Ability to work well with others and as part of a technical team

• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, decision-making and critical thinking skills, leveraging both logic and creativity; strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills; ability to identify patterns and generate informed ideas

• Focus on the business and end user’s needs; ability to set expectations and understand end user behaviour

• Ability and willingness to proactively accept, and drive, change to accomplish positive outcomes

• Ability to understand strategy and align tactical and strategic work in a well-balanced way

• Must have knowledge of how to lever technology to reduce operational costs and delivery business innovation in a fast moving and dynamic industry sector

• Professional competency in at least one technical specialization, with broad understanding of other current and emerging technologies.

DESIRED SKILLS

ITIL framework and processes

• Implementation and ongoing improvement of Incident, Change, Problem, Capacity and Availability management process

Compute, storage and networking engineering

• LAN/WAN/MAN architecture design, data centre network architecture design, network topology (physical and logical) design, structural cabling design.

• Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and ACI switches, ISR and ASR routers.

• Cisco ASA and Checkpoint firewall

• F5, Bluecoat, Riverbed technologies

• Wireless technologies – Cisco WLC controllers and AP, Meraki wireless AP

• Network services – DNS, DHCP, FTP, NTP, TACACS, RADIUS, IPSEC

• IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Linux and Windows server

Workplace engineering

• Desktop standard operating environment

• Cirrato, Printer drivers and print queues deployment

• Airport System Devices such as boarding pass printer, baggage tag printer, boarding gate reader and scanner

• MS Windows / MS Exchange & Lync / Active Directory / MS Office 365 and other productivity tools

Platform engineering

• Database technologies - Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Ingres, PostgreSQL, MongoDB