IBM Linux Infrastructure Specialist 

United Kingdom, England, Leicester 

595687855

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:

• 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

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.