**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. You'll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client. As MAS Infrastructure Architect you will design and implement robust, scalable, and secure environments for hosting IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS). This role involves architecture cloud, on-prem, or hybrid infrastructures, ensuring high availability, security, and disaster recovery while collaborating with enterprise teams. Your primary responsibilities include: * Architect infrastructure solutions (cloud/on-prem/hybrid) to host MAS. * Design and configure OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters for MAS containerized applications. * Ensure scalability, security, high availability, and disaster recovery for MAS environments. * Integrate MAS prerequisites such as Db2, Cloud Pak for Data, and Cognos. * Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud engineers, and other stakeholders to align infrastructure with business needs. * Implement automation and Infrastructure-as-Code for efficient deployment and management. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Deep knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and container orchestration. * Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud). * Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform). * Expertise in networking, storage, and security architecture for enterprise environments. * Hands-on experience with MAS deployment architecture and sizing. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience with hybrid cloud deployments and multi-region architecture. * Familiarity with Cloud Pak for Data and integration with MAS. * Knowledge of performance tuning and capacity planning for containerized workloads. * Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools. * Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional projects. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.