IBM Announces Over 500 Job Openings In India, While 200 In 24 Hours: Details Here!

There is good news for IT professionals, as US-Based Technology Giant - IBM put out over 500 job openings in India. 

Most of the job openings are on their LinkedIn page and over 200 new opportunities in just the last 24 hours. This rise in opportunity is an indication that India is doing its best to be in the mainstay for the $77-billion technology company.

As per Economic Times report, IBM does not disclose employee numbers, but it is estimated that about a third of its workforce of 350,000 is in India, more than even in US. 

Looking at the positions which are available, the openings are for people managers, middleware administrators, data scientists, network architects, incident management and cloud architects.

Currently, on the IBM India career page, there are some 566 openings.While in the US, it had about 91 new positions on LinkedIn in the past 24 hours and over 400 openings on its US career page, Times further reported. 

Meanwhile, Rod Bourgeois, head of research in DeepDive Equity Research, said “IBM is facing heavy competition as it seeks to win upcoming outsourcing contracts, plus many IBM clients have moved into a cost-reduction mode." Also, IBM and other major IT services businesses remain in need of India’s significant IT talent pool. 

Most of the hirings are happening alongside layoffs. IBM has been restructuring to focus on cloud and cognitive computing.