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Infrastructure Specialist

IBM

Other Engineering

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Mar 11, 2026

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Role Profile

Are you a technology leader seeking opportunities to innovate, lead business transformation, and serve your community? Neudesic is currently seeking a Principal Consultant to join our Cloud Infrastructure Services team.

Neudesic Principal Consultants on our Cloud Infrastructure Services team report to our National Director of Cloud Infrastructure. They are thought-leaders for clients, with a successful history of providing unique, well thought out architecture, design, development, and deployment solutions to complex business challenges. They are market leaders contributing to internal and external communities, growth and support of local teams. In addition, they assist regional account teams thru executive level presentations, statements of work and proposals, and exemplary delivery of solutions. They are deeply experienced with large-scale cloud infrastructure solutions, and have extensive experience in a leadership role.

The ideal Principal Consultant – CIS candidate has senior-advanced level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations on Cloud platforms primarily on Azure. The position is customer facing and will work closely with market leadership on both technical sales pursuits as well as technical delivery oversight. This position will work with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver the best solutions for large scale infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in public and hybrid cloud models. Consulting skills and the ability to clearly pull a desired state from a customer’s requests is a required skill. The ability to work with delivery teams and support the sales process from a technical excellence position is also required.

Responsibilities:

Design and deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS and GCP is a plus) using industry best practices leveraging the WAF and CAF frameworks.
Implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.
Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.
Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.
Understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process. This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.
Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.
Build effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., HIPAA).
Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure on Azure.
Microsoft Partner Funding options management for the region.
Work with solution offering teams that will be delivering and development of content for sales support.
Manage and mentor group of consultants and advise on career path.

As of February 9, 2022, Neudesic has been acquired by IBM and is now being integrated into the IBM organization. As a result, your recruitment process will be managed by IBM, which will also be the hiring entity.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Key Technology Requirements:

Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.
Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery
On-premise infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, firewalls, routing
Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.
Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Team Server (VSTS), Jenkins, Github, Octopus Deploy
Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.
Deployment automation languages and tools such as JSON Template, Terraform, Ansible
Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools
Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management
Azure WAF (Well Architected Framework) and CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) knowledgebase

Additional Skills & Competencies:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and networking roles
Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.
Experienced in problem solving, and able to follow a methodical implementation process.
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.
Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Technology Plus:

Microsoft Azure certified – specifically AZ300 and AZ301
Hands-on Experience with Terraform
Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes
Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs
Experience with AWS and GCP

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.

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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.

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), cash balance pension plan, 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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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