Platform Architect

**Introduction** 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** * Architect and provision IT enterprise platforms that aggregate network, infrastructure, cloud, and applications, integrating tools, services, workflows, and data across the enterprise. * Design platform services and technologies that align with agencywide strategic initiatives and business requirements. * Provide architectural analysis of on-premise and cloud-based environments to ensure interoperability and eliminate redundancy or inefficiency. * Serve as a technical liaison between USCIS OIT customers, internal engineering teams, and external vendors. * Lead lifecycle planning, architectural modernization, and migration of critical IT services and enterprise systems. **Required technical and professional expertise** * A minimum of five (5) years of experience with architecting and developing platformbased solutions, establishing throughput and setting baselines for acceptable performances standards. * Working knowledge of DevOps concepts * Experience in evaluation and analysis of workloads that are running in public and private cloud environments. * Expertise working with virtualization, storage and enterprise backup solutions using automation technologies. * Expertise working with Active Directory technologies. * Expertise working with application streaming and desktop virtualization technologies. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.