**Introduction** You will play a pivotal role in developing and supporting application solutions, resolving production issues, and performing testing activities. Collaborating closely with client personnel and other teams, you will contribute to identifying functional requirements and designing tailored solutions. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Infrastructure Specialist for the CIO Hybrid Cloud Z IT Operations team, you will maintain, support and help to enhance the mission-critical mainframe systems which support IBM’s key internal applications. You will have opportunities to learn about other technologies, such as Linux and OpenShift on Z, and the observability tools which drive our automation. You will use tools such as the Z console, Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS), Jira and ServiceNow. You will receive extensive structured training and have the opportunity to certify on the solutions we support. A typical day may include: •Learning new skills, and enhancing existing ones through our training plan. Later in your career at IBM you, like all employees, will be required to complete at least 40 hours of training each year, earning badges, certifications and qualifications •Working with experienced operators on one or more of the five teams in Operations, monitoring and controlling the operation of the mainframe hardware and software; •Starting and stopping system tasks, monitoring the system consoles for unusual conditions, and working with the system programming and production control staff to ensure the health and normal operation of the systems; •Making sure that batch workloads run to completion— without error or delay; •Analyzing first-level problems for all systems, resolving and routing as appropriate, supporting the systems management processes specific to requirements; •Attending team standups or cross-functional interactions •Using IBM’s Slack channels to interact with other colleagues across the company on business, technical and social topics **Required technical and professional expertise** •Technical background (IT infrastructure and operational systems) •Customer relationship skills •Attending graduation in IT areas (computer science, information security, systems analysis, etc.) or graduation completed •Availability to work on a flexible schedule, including night shift and weekends •Competence in spoken and written English Preferred background: •Programming Languages: JCL, REXX, Python/YAML, SQL, others would be considered a plus •Understanding of basic software architectures or of infrastructure such as X86 •Knowledge of Network technologies •zOS concepts and system programming would be ideal but is NOT required **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with mainframe operations and IBM Z systems, or a strong interest in learning about them. * Experience with IBM Z console, Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS), Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools is preferred.. * Ability to analyze and resolve issues related to system tasks and workloads. * Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented and collaborative environment. * Willingness to continuously learn and develop skills through structured training. * Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and contribute to cross-functional initiatives