IBM Integration Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

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As Integration 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 prioritization 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

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall 5+ years of experience with 3+ years on technical marketing, solution architecture, solution building, Proof-of-concept building.
• Atleast 3+ 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.
• Deep technical & hands-on familiarity with one or more of the following technologies
  • Kubernetes networking, CNI, Exposure to any one of the CNIs like Calico, Flannel, Weave
  • Openstack networking
  • Virtual Router implementations – Data Plane using Linux Kernel, IPTables, kernel packet filters, eBPF, virtual ethernet drivers, general Linux Networking skills
  • Tunneling technologies implementation. IPSec, GRE, VXLAN, IP over IP etc
  • Control plane routing protocols – OSPF, ISIS, BGP
  • Public cloud networking constructs, VPCs, Transit Gateways etc
  • Data plane acceleration: DPDK, SRIOV, VPP
  • Exposure working on Load Balancers, Web Proxies
  • Exposure to implementing network packet monitoring frameworks : cFlow, sFlow, jFlow, NetFlow, IPFIX, OWAMP, TWAMP, other telemetry protocols
  • Exposure to programmable api’s to network appliances : OpenFlow, NetConf, GRPC
  • Exposure to services meshes (ISTIO) is a strong positive too, but not mandator
  • Exposure to SaaS software development using cloud native databases and messaging frameworks
  • CI/CD experience for SaaS software development and continuous upgrades
  • Site Reliability Engineering

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Hands-on Experience with ML & AI model integrations
• 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
• 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