My First 60 Days at IBM as a Technology Engineer
What I did?**
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Note: This is totally my OWN words! sharing my experience over the past first 60 days.
I have successfully completed my company employment probation period within the first 60 days at IBM 👁 🐝 Ⓜ️. I have experienced many challenges and new experiences which I would like to share on this blog.
Why I joined IBM?
One of my 2022 goals was to join one of the two multinational companies which was on my list under the title of engineering. IBM was one of the options, I started looking in their career portal and I’m lucky I found a new job post: cloud engineer — client engineering. Cloud engineer’s description which suited my interest. However, it’s renamed to be a technology engineer with same role responsibilities 😎.
What does a technology engineer do?
IBM Client Engineering Technology Engineers in Middle East and Africa (MEA) are part of a cross-functional team that delivers a unique client co-creation experience to accelerate client transformation.
To expand on that, a successful technology engineer can constantly demonstrate following capabilities:
- Provides technical resources and business domain knowledge in their select specialty areas, including Site Reliability, Cloud, Data, Automation, DevOps, and Security to drive MVPs forward to the clients.
- Learns and applies relevant industry experience to establish credibility with the clients.
- Demonstrates a growth mindset and continuous learning.
- Hands-on experiences with different Cloud solutions (hybrid, public, private, multi-cloud, on premise) with cloud-native application and implications for solution design.
- Use contemporary technologies and approaches to design, develop, test, and deliver solutions.
Experience and Learning
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
I didn’t know I was going to write this blog until I realized how many new technologies I didn’t know about before. I took some time to reflect on things I didn’t know previously, and I wish I had known that there were ready-made solutions that might have helped me a lot!
IBM Cloud Paks
I won’t go into details and repeat what is mentioned here “What Are IBM Cloud Paks?”, but IBM cloud Pak in general helps you to modernize your applications. As cross-functional team, I have to learn the Paks. I started with Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) and I engaged with client to demonstrate the capabilities of CP4I. It was an amazing and new experience to me from both sides: dealing with client and adapt new knowledge.
Opportunity of continuous learning
Diving deeper into containers and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift 😍. Understanding IBM garage and learned more about design thinking. One thing I like so far at IBM is the learning, it isn’t limited to IBM tech or products. I deployed my first platform in Microsoft Azure and I had the opportunity to explore more on AWS.
Challenges
I always love to share my knowledge “the more you give the more you get back” and for this reason, I participate as a mentor to help people achieve their goals. Furthermore, I’m learning and shadowing to lead community for special tech activity. Finding time for these activities is challenging for me and I’m so happy to spend my time to support others.
New people
Multinational company means I’m working with different people in different countries and to be honest this is one of the reasons why I wanted to work for multinational company in the first place. I’m learning from the diversity how others think, work..etc. It isn’t limited to a specific place and people, this makes me more understanding of others. I met many amazing people here in the past 60 days and had the opportunity to travel and meet them face2face!
Last but not least
IBM is a really big company and I’m looking forward to the future endeavors with them.
