Your Role and Responsibilities
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 prioritization of customer requirements
- Work with the sales teams and customers to ensure products continually meet market requirements while maintaining business objectives
- Gather and analyze 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 8+ years of experience with 5+ years on engineering / prototype development / solution architecture.
- 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)
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise