IBM

Senior System Support Analyst

IBM$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred
  • Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure management
  • Expertise in risk assessment and mitigation
  • Advanced knowledge of security and compliance principles
  • Skilled in incident analysis and resolution
  • Experience with IT service continuity planning
  • Holding advanced security certifications like CISSP or CISM is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and resolve infrastructure-related incidents
  • Provision, deploy, configure, and migrate infrastructure products
  • Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments
  • Manage and support infrastructure products effectively
  • Develop and implement strategies to enhance IT resilience

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and certification
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology in infrastructure and security
  • Work within a collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Gain experience in compliance with regulatory requirements and export regulations
Full Job Description
Your role and responsibilities

As an Infrastructure Specialist in Platform Engineering Services, you will act as a trusted advisor to Client IT, providing expertise in infrastructure, security, and risk management. Your primary focus will be on ensuring high-quality technical support, meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and adhering to process compliance.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
Analyze and Resolve Incidents: Analyze and resolve infrastructure-related incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring prompt restoration of services. This involves identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and verifying resolution.
Provision and Deploy Infrastructure: Provision, deploy, configure, and migrate infrastructure products to meet client needs, ensuring seamless integration and minimal disruption.
Conduct Risk Assessments: Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities, developing strategies to mitigate risks and enhance overall IT resilience.
Manage and Support Infrastructure: Manage and support infrastructure products, ensuring they meet client requirements and adhere to SLAs, while maintaining process compliance.
Enhance IT Resilience: Develop and implement strategies to minimize the likelihood of significant service outages or disasters, enhancing overall IT resilience and ensuring business continuity.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise
Deep Expertise in Infrastructure Management: Proven experience in managing and supporting large-scale infrastructure products, ensuring high-quality technical support, and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Experience with Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Demonstrated ability to conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and developing strategies to mitigate risks and enhance overall IT resilience.
Advanced Knowledge of Security and Compliance: In-depth understanding of security and risk management principles, with experience in ensuring process compliance and adhering to regulatory requirements.
Proficiency in Incident Analysis and Resolution: Skilled in analyzing and resolving complex infrastructure-related incidents, with a strong focus on minimizing downtime and ensuring prompt restoration of services.
Experience with IT Service Continuity Planning: Proven experience in developing and implementing strategies to minimize the likelihood of significant service outages or disasters, ensuring business continuity and enhancing overall IT resilience.

Preferred technical and professional experience
Advanced Security Certifications: Holding industry-recognized security certifications, such as CISSP or CISM, would be beneficial in demonstrating expertise in security and risk management principles.
ITIL Framework Knowledge: Familiarity with the ITIL framework would be advantageous in ensuring process compliance and adhering to regulatory requirements.
Cloud Infrastructure Experience: Experience working with cloud infrastructure products, such as AWS or Azure, would be valuable in provisioning, deploying, and managing infrastructure products.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

About IBM

Sequent Computer Systems designs and manufactures multiprocessing computer systems based on Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture, which are used primarily as application and database servers for commercial applications. Through a partnership with Oracle Corporation, Sequent became a dominant high-end UNIX platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later it introduced a next-generation high-end platform for UNIX and Windows NT based on non-uniform memory access architecture, NUMA-Q. Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon. In July 1999 Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp.

IBM Careers

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