IBM Linux Infrastructure Specialist 

United Kingdom, England 

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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.

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:
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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

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
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.