Infrastructure Specialist-IBM Cloud Platform

IBM

IBM

Other Engineering

Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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 Infrastructure Specialist for the IBM Cloud Platform, you will manage and implement IBM Cloud-based infrastructure solutions according to established designs, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. You will collaborate with IT teams to implement and integrate IBM Cloud infrastructure solutions based on existing designs. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Set up and Configure IBM Cloud Resources: Set up, configure, and manage IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, storage solutions, networking, and databases to support business applications. This includes implementing and overseeing IBM Cloud resources like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Load Balancers, and Cloud Internet Services.

• Monitor and Troubleshoot Issues: Continuously monitor IBM Cloud infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations to ensure smooth operations.

• Apply Security Measures: Apply and enforce security measures to ensure IBM Cloud infrastructure complies with organizational policies and industry regulations.

• Optimize Costs: Optimize costs by right-sizing resources, developing cost-effective solutions, and monitoring usage.

• Automate Processes: Use automation tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate and streamline processes, and implement DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Required technical and professional expertise

As a Infrastructure Specialist, we are looking for candidates with the following background and skills:

• Excellent knowledge of Databases: Oracle(must have) and others.

• Installation, configuration, server administration, creation of scripts and automatic tasks, update.

• Excellent knowledge of various operating systems: Linux RHEL 8, Linux Centos, Unix in general.

• Knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server.

• Knowledge of IBM Business Automation Workflow.

• Knowledge of IBM Identity Verify Access.

• Knowledge of IBM Security Verify Governance.

• Knowledge of JasperReport Server.

• Knowledge of IBM Security Verify Directory.

• Experience as a System Administrator.

• Applies knowledge of Networking, Storage, Computer, Security Services.

• Understands SLA management, services health management and key metrics monitoring.

• Able to produce documentation for use by team and customer.

• Good level of English is required as the candidate will be working directly with the customer’s team

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

In particular, are very appreciated:

· Certifications in a DB platform (Oracle or others)

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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