**Introduction** An IBM Partner Technical Specialist (PTS) is a technical expert who helps business/service partners incorporate IBM's technology into their solutions. They also help service partners' sales and technical teams demonstrate IBM's technology to their clients **Your role and responsibilities** Responsibilities: * Influence business/service partner's technical strategy to include IBM's technology * Embed IBM's technology into business/service partner's reference architectures, practices, and solutions * Help business/service partner's sales and technical teams demonstrate IBM's technology to their clients **Required technical and professional expertise** Business-Tech Alignment: Experience aligning business goals with tech solutions. Stakeholder Consensus Building: Strong interpersonal and communication skills for achieving consensus among stakeholders. 3+ years of experience in enterprise storage solutions. - Proven experience in designing, implementing, and supporting storage systems, including SAN, NAS, and cloud-based storage. - Knowledge of integrating storage solutions with servers and virtualized environments (e.g. KVM, VMware, Hyper-V). - Understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. - Expertise in storage cybersecurity, including immutable backups and ransomware protection. **Preferred technical and professional experience** OpenShift, VMware ESXi and other Infrastructure as service platforms