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Application Developer-Azure Cloud Modernization

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering
Calgary, AB, Canada
Posted on Apr 1, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Developer specializing in Azure Cloud Modernization, you will deliver modernization design and build engagements through expertise in various migration and modernization tools. You will leverage your knowledge of legacy modernization code refactoring, application code conversion, and microservices to drive solution delivery. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design and Implement Modernization Solutions: Deliver modernization design and build engagements through expertise in various migration and modernization tools, including installation, configuration, and optimization as per engagement requirements. • Refactor Legacy Code: Apply knowledge of legacy modernization code refactoring, such as RPG to .NET, VB6 to .NET, and legacy code to 4GL, to change the platform of application codebases. • Convert Workloads to Containers: Utilize expertise in building microservices and converting workloads into containers from legacy application code bases, using tools like Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). • Optimize Application Code: Apply advanced knowledge of technical and functional aspects to convert application code into containers through modular design, using PowerShell scripting and Azure services like Azure Service Fabric and Azure Logic Apps. • Collaborate on Solution Delivery: Work with stakeholders to deliver modernization solutions, leveraging knowledge of modernization tools and legacy platforms, including mainframe, iSeries/AS400, and Solaris.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Migration and Modernization Tools: Exposure to various migration and modernization tools, including installation, configuration, and optimization for engagement requirements. • Legacy Code Refactoring: Experience working with legacy modernization code refactoring, such as RPG to .NET, VB6 to .NET, and legacy code to 4GL. • Microservices and Containerization: Exposure to building microservices and converting workloads into containers from legacy application code bases using Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). • Modular Design and Scripting: Experience working with PowerShell scripting and Azure services like Azure Service Fabric and Azure Logic Apps to convert application code into containers through modular design. • Legacy Platform Modernization: Exposure to modernization tools and legacy platforms, including mainframe, iSeries/AS400, and Solaris.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced PowerShell Scripting: Exposure to creating complex PowerShell scripts for automating tasks and workflows in Azure cloud environments, including Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). • Legacy Platform Knowledge: Experience working with multiple legacy platforms, including mainframe, iSeries/AS400, and Solaris, with an understanding of their architecture and limitations. • Azure Service Fabric Expertise: Exposure to designing and implementing scalable and secure applications using Azure Service Fabric, with knowledge of its features and best practices.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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