Linux Infrastructure Specialist

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres, 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.

A career in IBM CIC 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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Linux Infrastructure Specialist at IBM you will support the infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward?

Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. As a Linux Infrastructure Specialist, you'll be responsible for keeping up with the latest changes, using your expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our clients and products. In your role you may be responsible for:

- Define, analyze and review technical architecture on required platform and coming up with architecture options and recommendations
- Define, detail, and scope the technical requirements into solution
- Work across key activities in configuration, systems management tools and backup and recovery
- Support Technical Consultants and lead in building solutions and providing technical mentoring and guidance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Supporting and enhancing a large Linux Server estate running on a mix of VMWare and physical servers (to get best performance from the matching grid computing clusters). Work will include deployments (building the new face matching cluster) trouble-shooting (e.g. identifying and resolving problems found during testing) performance tuning maintenance (e.g. patching) building out new capabilities automation of tasks.

Windows Server
- Microsoft System Center (SCOM / SCCM / SCSM)
- SQL Server
- Red Hat Linux
- Red Hat Satellite
- GitLab

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Strong Execution (Infrastructure, network, storage, OS/Linux etc.) skills leveraging Cloud technologies including OpenStack, Softlayer, Amazon etc.
- Good understanding of monitoring techniques and automation from Infrastructure perspective.
- Strong ITIL skills, System management specialists.

About Business UnitThe Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. A fast-paced and dynamic business built to deliver high-value technical services to world renowned clients. All of our employees work in a consultancy environment on a variety of exciting projects across a range of sectors. Every project has its own unique working environment - this enables our employees to build their experience, skillset and network. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems?

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.

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