Database Cloud Support Engineer

Introduction

The IBM Cloud team supports clients who deliver mission critical processes and leverage the latest innovations in the Cloud catalogue. The team supports a combination of Public, Hybrid, and Multicloud clients who are utilizing the flexibility of IBM Cloud to build and run their business anywhere. IBM Cloud allows deployment on multiple clouds (IBM, AWS, Azure or Google) and systems (IBM Z®, IBM Power® or x86). Public cloud with industry-specific requirements and Watsonx.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Database Cloud Support Engineer, you will provide technical support to Database clients. You will work in close collaboration with team members, other IT organizations, key stakeholders and business partners to meet the needs of the business as well as that of the customers.

Key Tasks Include

• Collaborate with other Database Engineering teams e.g. for knowledge transfer of new product/technologies
• Help provide solutions when working with customers to identify and remediate issues in the Database instances
• Create documentation, and provide oversight and peer review of change control documents written by other team members
  
  
  

This position is Monday to Friday with flexibility to work an occasional Saturday or Sunday for holiday coverage and requires working onsite 3 days per week at our Mulhuddart location in Dublin.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2 or more years of working closely with database technology
• 2 or more years experience working directly with customers
• Experience with Database Design and Management
• Experience with any of the following: Cloudant, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic, IBM Cloudant, Db2 offerings
• Great communication and soft skills
  
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Solid experience creating technical documentation for current and future state database support needs
• Skill in problem identification, troubleshooting and resolution of database issues
• Ability to both work independently as well as in a team environment
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Computer Engineering or a similar field
  
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

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.