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Application Consultant - Red Hat Cloud Migration

IBM

IBM

Giza Governorate, Egypt
Posted on Aug 3, 2025
Introduction

As an Application Consultant specializing in Red Hat Cloud Migration, you will be responsible for leading and executing the migration of enterprise applications and workloads to Red Hat OpenShift environments on hybrid cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure. You will also support the deployment and administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration as part of enterprise modernization and integration efforts.

You will work closely with client technical teams and architects to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available OpenShift clusters, ensuring smooth application transitions and operational stability post-migration.

Your role and responsibilities

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.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Plan, configure, and administer Red Hat OpenShift environments (on-premises and cloud-based).
  • Execute application and workload migrations to OpenShift on Azure.
  • Deploy, manage, and support IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and related integration patterns.
  • Collaborate with developers and DevOps teams to enable cloud-native capabilities.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize containerized environments.
  • Ensure system security, compliance, and high availability.
  • Document solutions, operational procedures, and best practices.
  • 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration and enterprise system support.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (including deployment and troubleshooting).
  • Practical experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform services.
  • Experience working with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, including installation, configuration, and integration flows.
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and container lifecycle management.
  • Experience in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, or similar).
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Provide knowledge transfer and technical guidance to client teams.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Familiarity with Cloud Pak for Integration
  • Experience with enterprise integration platforms and messaging (Kafka, MQ, API Connect, etc.).
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist (RHCSA/RHCE/OpenShift).
  • Azure Administrator or Architect certification.
  • Experience in hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.
  • Prior consulting or customer-facing experience.
    Additional Information:
  • Must be flexible to work across global client time zones.
  • Willingness to work on shifts as required for project timelines or go-lives.
  • Strong documentation and collaboration skills are essential.

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

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