Associate Application Consultant - AWS Cloud

IBM

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 17, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You will 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 will 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.

In this role, you will work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Associate Application Consultant for AWS Cloud, you will support the design, implementation, and operation of cloud-based applications in client environments.

You will work closely with experienced architects, engineers, and consultants, contributing to delivery teams while developing your technical and consulting capabilities. Strong communication, collaboration, and a professional client-facing attitude are essential for success in this role.

Key responsibilities:

  • Support application and cloud delivery activities on AWS projects
  • Collaborate closely with architects, engineers, and consultants
  • Participate in client meetings and project workstreams
  • Learn and apply AWS services, cloud concepts, and delivery best practices
  • Contribute to documentation, testing, and team collaboration activities
  • Act professionally and confidently in customer environments

This position will be based within the Hybrid Cloud & Data service line.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Majors: Computer Science, MIS/IT, Computer Engineering, Data Science, SW Engineering, or related fields.
  • Strong proactive attitude and willingness to learn
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively in client-facing environments
  • Interest and first experience in cloud computing, application development, and AWS
  • You're great at solving problems by looking at things differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions for complex technical issues.
  • You thrive on teamwork, you have excellent verbal and written communication skills and, importantly, a consulting mindset.
  • Excellent verbal and written German language skills (C1 level), fluency in English.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Initial exposure to AWS Cloud or other cloud platforms
  • Academic projects, internships, or hands-on labs related to IT or software development
  • Basic understanding of DevOps or automation concepts
  • Interest in pursuing AWS 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 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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