Client Technical Specialist - Application Resource Management

IBM Middle East

Cairo, Egypt

Ref: RP805-1375

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Introduction

Client Technical Specialists (CTP) are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. As a CTP you understand the client's business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!

Your Role and Responsibilities

The CTS, Turbnomic will

- Act as a deep solution and technical subject matter expert for Application Resource Management / Application Performance Management / Observability opportunities and leverage your experience to make presales engagements successful
- Work with prospects and customers to prove the value of the Turbonomic solution and it's relation to the AIOPS set of technologies
- Actively participate in development and progression of qualified opportunities for IBM Turbonomic /APM/Observability with the IBM Sales Team
- Demonstrate the Turbonomic offering at customer sites, remotely for customers, and at field events
- Drive effective Proofs of Concept with customers that showcase how IBM Turbonomic adds value to the clients' business
- Enable, support and work with the IBM Business Partner ecosystem.
- Collaborate with other internal IBM teams to drive unmatched customer satisfaction.
- Maintain an understanding of the client's industry, including industry trends, industry business processes.
- Collaborate with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions.
- Support customer technical escalations, on-site health checks, best practice sharing, designing solutions; and answer technical questions throughout the sales process in order to identify/progress/close sales and develop customer relationships.

Technical Expertise

- IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Knowledge of the role of traditional IT Operations (ITOps) Engineers, tools they are typically using and pain points they are facing
- Understanding of how a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) approaches Operations to ensure that continuously delivered applications run efficiently and reliably by using software engineering and automation solutions.
- Ability to assess where the client is on the journey from traditional IT Operations to SRE, and able to articulate and demonstrate the value of IBM Turbonomic to help them with the transition.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps concepts
- Kubernetes Expertise:
- Knowledge of building and operating clusters effectively on a Kubernetes platform
- Understanding of the underlying open source and concepts around Storage, Networking, Security, Trouble Shooting, Management
- Cloud Platform knowledge and in one of the following: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform/Anthos, Amazon/AWS, IBM Public Cloud
- Understanding of containers and microservices application architecture.
- Strong Linux Skills The CTS, Turbnomic will:
- Act as a deep solution and technical subject matter expert for Application Resource Management / Application Performance Management / Observability opportunities and leverage your experience to make presales engagements successful
- Work with prospects and customers to prove the value of the Turbonomic solution and it's relation to the AIOPS set of technologies
- Actively participate in development and progression of qualified opportunities for IBM Turbonomic /APM/Observability with the IBM Sales Team
- Demonstrate the Turbonomic offering at customer sites, remotely for customers, and at field events
- Drive effective Proofs of Concept with customers that showcase how IBM Turbonomic adds value to the clients' business
- Enable, support and work with the IBM Business Partner ecosystem.
- Collaborate with other internal IBM teams to drive unmatched customer satisfaction.
- Maintain an understanding of the client's industry, including industry trends, industry business processes.
- Collaborate with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions.
- Support customer technical escalations, on-site health checks, best practice sharing, designing solutions; and answer technical questions throughout the sales process in order to identify/progress/close sales and develop customer relationships.

Technical Expertise

- IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Knowledge of the role of traditional IT Operations (ITOps) Engineers, tools they are typically using and pain points they are facing
- Understanding of how a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) approaches Operations to ensure that continuously delivered applications run efficiently and reliably by using software engineering and automation solutions.
- Ability to assess where the client is on the journey from traditional IT Operations to SRE, and able to articulate and demonstrate the value of IBM Turbonomic to help them with the transition.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps concepts
- Kubernetes Expertise:
- Knowledge of building and operating clusters effectively on a Kubernetes platform
- Understanding of the underlying open source and concepts around Storage, Networking, Security, Trouble Shooting, Management
- Cloud Platform knowledge and in one of the following: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform/Anthos, Amazon/AWS, IBM Public Cloud
- Understanding of containers and microservices application architecture.
- Strong Linux Skills

Requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 3+ years' experience in selling and supporting software products to IT organizations.
- 1+ years' experience with one or more leading Application Performance Management (APM) AIOps, or Observability offerings in the market today (e.g. Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, App Dynamics, Splunk, SumoLogic, Devo)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong observation skills
- Strong problem solving skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

- Knowledge of the IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOPS.

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.

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