**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** * Tool Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable tools and frameworks to automate operational workflows (e.g., anomaly detection, root cause analysis, predictive alerting). * AIOps Integration: Implement AI/ML models into operational pipelines (e.g., log analysis, metric forecasting, incident triage) using Python, Go, or similar languages. * Observability & Automation: Enhance monitoring systems with AI-driven insights and self-healing capabilities. * Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to identify pain points in operations and develop AI-powered solutions. * Performance Optimization: Improve system reliability by reducing noise in alerts and automating remediation tasks. * Best Practices: Advocate for AIOps adoption by documenting use cases, conducting demos, and mentoring junior engineers. **Required technical and professional expertise** Required Professional and Technical Expertise * Minimum 7+ years experience * Proficient in Linux. * Expert in configuration management tools like Ansible. * Knowledgeable in creating CI/CD pipelines, with Jenkins as a preference. * Skilled in optimizing container builds. * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift. * Comfortable writing scripts in Bash and Python. * Practical experience in building React front-end applications with strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript. * Expertise in developing backend services and APIs, particularly using Python frameworks. * Strong understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases. * Familiar with task scheduling tools such as Kafka, Redis, and Celery for asynchronous task processing. * Experience with AI/ML models and integrating them into operational pipelines. **Preferred technical and professional experience** Work with Hiring Manager to ID up to 3 bullets max (encouraging then to focus on required skills) •Kubernetes/OpenShift: Strongly preferred experience in working with production Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. •Automation/Scripting: In depth experience with the Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, IBM Continuous Delivery, ArgoCD •Monitoring/Observability: Hands on experience crafting alerts and dashboards using tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus 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.