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.

As anIBM Application Architect, you directlyhelp clients transformtheir businessandsolve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The project provides support for the continued development and sustainment of the identity management system which services as the authentication and authorization engine for users and systems at the government agency and across government partners. We provide User Interface and User Experience Development, front-end web development (ReactJS), system engineering, and Infrastructure as Code support to the redesign and modernization of the identity management portal and back-end systems.

• Working with leadership on the build automation roadmap
• Responsible for developing & improving the CI/CD pipeline
• Applying updates for the different services
• Troubleshooting issues with the build process
• Documenting processes
• Coordinate with applicable stakeholders for baseline changes
• Create Configuration Management Processes and Plans as required by the program
• Conduct a Configuration Control Board and develop associated materials to include briefings using a standard template, agenda and minutes
• Oversee the publishing of the baseline Computer Software Configuration Item (CSCI) (e.g. source code, service offerings and documentation)
• Provide configuration management of supporting software documentation to include documents required in the A&A RMF process, Knowledge-Based Articles (KBA), product support documentation (COTS, GOTS, and open source) installation scripts, test plan and procedures; and documents required to operate and maintain the delivered capability.
• Establish a software configuration management process for software releases and patches

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience configuring a build automation tool: Jenkins, Gitlab CI, CircleCI, etc...
• Experience with using Git and branching, Maven, NPM, or similar
• Demonstrated experience with software development teams utilizing configuration management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the configuration of multiple brands and types of software, as well as license installation and maintenance.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (e.g. Security+) or the ability to obtain the certification within 90 days
• Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ ability to obtain CI Poly

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience using container images as part of a build pipeline
• Maintaining build images
• Implementing multi-staged pipelines
• Other tools: Nexus/SonarQube/Fortify/etc...
• ITIL certification is desired