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

The project you will be working on will be in support of maintaining current on-premises networking while supporting cloud migration. Work will be performed onsite in a SCIF in Washington, DC

Additional tasks include:

Responsible for troubleshooting network incidents, providing root cause analysis and documenting information in tickets and knowledge repositories
Help to establish cloud-based network architecture based upon business requirements, for cloud migrations, while maintaining architectural best practices
Analyze and adapt existing network infrastructure and network implementations to function in a cloud-based environment using cost-effective best practices
Provide expert-level guidance to supervisory staff on networking considerations for cloud migrations and new infrastructure
Provide all necessary documentation to detail networking and cloud infrastructure designs
Develop, implement, and manage network engineering processes including configuration management and design standards to ensure compliance, relevancy, and sustainability
Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
Clearance: Must currently hold and have the ability to maintain Top Secret and be SCI eligible

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

10+ years of experience managing enterprise network infrastructures
Experience with Cisco Networking, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Routers, LAN, WAN, and nodes
Experience with General Dynamics TACLANE
Experience with WireShark, Solarwinds and other analysis tools
Expert-level experience in networking principles and protocols such as IP subnetting, routing, security and encryption, DNS, etc.
Extensive experience in designing, deploying, managing and monitoring Firewalls such as Cisco ASA, VMware NSX Edge Gateway & distributed firewall, or Palo Alto in an enterprise environment
Experience in Cloud Networking and Hybrid Networking technologies such as Site to Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute
Experience architecting network infrastructure that adheres to compliance frameworks such as NIST, CCPA, GDPR, or PCI DSS

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with AWS GovCloud
Experience with FedRAMP policies, protocols and procedures
Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, or CISA
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certifications

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

US Citizenship Required.

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