**Introduction** 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. A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll 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'll 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. **Your role and responsibilities** An Infrastructure Specialist-Cloud Application Operations is responsible for providing 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, addressing issues related to application, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure. They handle Level 1.5 remediation across the fleet using a standard workflow and incident handling process. The specialist receives and records incident information, selecting appropriate actions to resolve issues and communicating the solution or action plan to the client. They are proficient in various tools and technologies, including APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure. The specialist understands high-level cloud application architecture and can perform initial analysis on incidents. They manage Application ID and provide cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements. They also ensure DR and manual redundancy failovers. Daily, weekly, and monthly integrated service management reports are provided across the solution. The Infrastructure Specialist works with ticketing tools like ServiceNow, IBM Control Desk & Remedy, and automation tools such as Rundeck and IBM Runbook Automation. They are familiar with ITIL processes, including Incident (including Critical Incident Management), Problem, Change management, and Integrated Service Level Management. They utilize monitoring tools like IBM APM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, NewRelic, Runscope, Netcool OmniBus to monitor the client's environment. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Platform admin and support experience * Container management experience * Incident management * Hadoop and / or Linux admin experience * Must have good communication and keen to learn mindset **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Platform admin and support experience * Container management experience * Incident management * Hadoop and / or Linux admin experience * Must have good communication and keen to learn mindset