As an Incubation Engineer, you will be expected to:
Understand customer’s technical requirements & be the voice of the customer user personas
Build Proof-of-Concept pods & demonstration test beds
Suggest solution architectures based on IBM’s larger portfolio
Document solutions and produce white-papers
Prepare customer facing technical presentations & conduct product adoption workshops with end-user personas
Drive grouping and prioritisation of customer requirements
Work with the sales teams and customers to ensure products continually meet market requirements while maintaining business objectives
Gather and analyse all available research and data sources to continually refine and improve all aspects of the product
General expectations
Experience with Telco and Edge environments including networks and infrastructure management
Be hands on in various cloud and enterprise networking scenarios, such as building networks, deploying controllers and demonstrating solutions
Be comfortable in automating scenarios using one or more scripting languages. Be comfortable in Infra Automation packages such as Terraform or Ansible
Be comfortable in understanding various routing protocol and security configurations
Coordinate with Product Management, Sales and Marketing teams to develop technical solution documents such as design documents, white papers and presentations
Monitor competitor capabilities, and produce comparative research reports
Be comfortable in learning and trying out new solutions
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Overall 12+ years of experience with 5+ years on engineering / prototype development / solution architecture.
Atleast 5+ years of relevant experience in framing solutions for Telco’s & Enterprises for SDN/NFV requirements
Strong telecommunications knowledge with Proficient understanding of Virtualization, NFV/SDN, Network Slicing, Open stack, Kubernetes & Public Cloud Networking environments, etc.
Hands-on Experience with ML & AI model integrations. Strong understanding of Knowledge Graphs & the application of KGs in AI use-cases
Ability to manage all associated activities throughout Product life cycle in collaboration with other functional groups (Sales, marketing, Finance, Engineering, Services, Partners etc)
Experience in generating Product collaterals – whitepapers, technical product marketing, development of pricing models, Market research and competitive analysis
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Exposure to product managing SaaS platforms
Extensive hands-on technical experience putting together large solutions from multiple products