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International Business Machines (IBM) is the world’s leading information technology products, services and solutions company. The company’s portfolio of capabilities ranges from services to software, hardware, fundamental research, financing and the component technologies used to build larger systems. 2014 revenues were $92 billion, with over 380, 000 employees operating in more than 160 countries.

IBM is an innovation company. Both in what we do and in how we do it, we pursue continuous transformation – always remixing to higher value in our portfolio and skills, in the capabilities we deliver to our clients and in our own operations and management practices. With the advent of Cloud, Mobile, Social and Analytics, the world has experienced a massive change in the way business is conducted. For example, the world produces over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data everyday and 80% of it is unstructured. Therefore, it’s invisible to current technology. IBM Watson along with our brand new Cognitive Consulting business is a cognitive system that can understand that data, learn from it and reason through it. That’s how industries as diverse as healthcare, retail, banking and travel are using Watson to reshape their industries.

At all levels within the company, IBM is looking for external talent to continue our transformation and continue to focus our growth in these new areas.

Job Description

ZTBA2018

This position as IBM Technical Power Systems Specialist offers you the opportunity for a great start in the trend setter company IBM for cognitive systems business. It is a senior position where we need your engagement in an enterprise environment also with very large Swiss and international clients.



You have the responsibility for IBM Power Systems (Power Systems: AIX, I, Linux) Switzerland with ownership to manage technical key relationships, understanding the client's situation and projects, and developing new strategic projects with technical / architecture counterparts. The ideal candidate has Linux experience.



You will become active member of the Swiss / IBM Linux membership in open source community.

You get the chance to profit of expert education - for technical and also for sales.



Detailed tasks:

- Supporting power sales and BP to develop technical power solutions - with special focus on new business.

- Bring your broad know-how in container / cloud / analytics to expand business of existing power clients.

- work overall Switzerland with our clients on your own / with high independence to make our clients happy.

- 50% remote work with our clients / BP.



We live in an era of remarkable change and opportunity. Data and technology are transforming industries, society, and even the workplace by creating professions that didn't exist before the emergence of cognitive computing, cloud, analytics, social, mobile and security. As the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, IBM is a leader in this global transformation and we encourage you to consider being part of this team.

We are seeking individuals interested in making an impact in helping on IBM's power server portfolio to both maintain and grow existing revenue streams and relationships and to develop new clients. You must be self-motivated, ready to interact with a variety of other highly motivated people, and work in a changing environment. Our technical specialists deliver industry centric business solutions to clients of all sizes and markets.



Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, in country language as well as in English


• Technical know-how on IBM Power plattform. Best with AIX, i and Linux as operating system.


• - experience as power admin for different operating systems.


• - Experience in solving complex technical problems in IT architecture


• - Track record of nurturing large enterprise accounts with multiple departments at different levels


• - Maturity to work on your own


• - High interest to work / learn on new business with existing and new clients - specifically for subjects like cloud, analytics, open source.


• - Experience and deep know-how with linux (SUSE & RedHat)


• - Experience with Big Data and Container solutions (docker)


• - Effective in teaming with other IBM sales and technical sales resources (up to global lab's) .

Preferred Tech and Prof Experience

• As stated

EO Statement

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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.