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Cloud Network Specialist (IBM Cloud, Azure, GCP)

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Feb 16, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Network Specialist to support and operate mission-critical network infrastructure across IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a 24×7 operations role involving rotational shifts, responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, and security of hybrid multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in hybrid connectivity, Linux, and Red Hat OpenShift, along with proven experience in troubleshooting complex production issues in real time.

Key Responsibilities

Provide 24×7 operational support for multi-cloud network environments on a rotational shift basis.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve network incidents, ensuring adherence to SLAs and minimizing downtime.
Manage networking components across IBM Cloud, Azure, and GCP (VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, gateways, load balancers, DNS, firewalls).
Support hybrid connectivity between on-premises and cloud using VPN and dedicated connections (Direct Link, ExpressRoute, Interconnect).
Handle Severity-1 incidents, lead troubleshooting bridges, and coordinate with SMEs and vendors.
Support networking for Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes platforms (ingress, egress, SDN/OVN, network policies).
Perform routine maintenance, patching coordination, and change implementations.
Ensure network security compliance, segmentation, and access controls.
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and network diagrams.
Participate in on-call escalation and disaster recovery activities.
Collaborate with cloud, platform, and security teams for deployments and incident resolution.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills & Qualifications

7–12 years of experience in network engineering and operations, including cloud networking.
Proven experience in 24×7 production support environments with rotational shifts.
Hands-on expertise in:
- IBM Cloud networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Link, Load Balancers, Security Groups)
- Microsoft Azure networking (VNet, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Private Link)
- Google Cloud networking (VPC, Cloud Interconnect, Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Private Service Connect)
Strong experience with hybrid cloud deployments.
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, BGP, OSPF, DNS, NAT).
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes networking.
Experience troubleshooting high-priority incidents under time pressure.

Soft Skills

- Ability to work effectively in rotational shifts (including nights/weekends).
- Strong incident management and crisis handling skills.
- Excellent communication during high-severity incidents.
- Team player with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Relevant certifications (preferred):
- IBM Cloud / Azure / GCP Networking certifications
- Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes certifications
Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) and scripting (Python, Bash).
Exposure to service mesh and advanced cloud security controls.

Years of Experience:
7 - 15

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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