LinuxONE Deployment Infrastructure Engineer

Role: LinuxONE Deployment Infrastructure Engineer
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 12-18+ Months Contract
Video Interviews
Experience- 15+ years Required

Job Description  

Scope: The Entire LinuxOne estate, 4x physical locations, 8x Emperor 5.

• Entire LinuxONE estate

• You would be responsible for all LinuxONE infrastructure across the organization, not just one server or one application.

• 4x physical locations

• Client has four separate data centers where LinuxONE systems are installed.

• 8x Emperor 5

• Client has eight IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 systems.

Required Skills:

•             Hands-on experience deploying and installing IBM LinuxONE infrastructure and RHEL Linux environments.

•             Experience with LinuxONE server deployment, FS9600 storage, SAN switches, HMC, and LPAR configuration.

•             Deploy bare-metal RHEL LPARs for Oracle workloads and KVM LPARs for other applications.

•             Experience supporting MQ, Kafka, and Red Hat OpenShift environments on LinuxONE.

•             Configure HAProxy/Keepalived and infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and Node Exporter.

•             Experience with IBM z HMC Exporter and Red Hat Identity Manager.

•             Deploy and support Jenkins, Ansible control nodes, code repositories, and Yum/DNF repositories for RHEL patching.

•             Strong Linux troubleshooting, automation, scripting, patching, and infrastructure integration skills.

•             End-to-end LinuxONE deployment/build experience is highly preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Expert consultative knowledge on a wide array of Linux on zSystems/LinuxONE based technologies
• Candidate will be required to help architect and implement Linux migration solutions
• Leading technical teams
• Ability to interact with and present to client’s Executive management
• Execute role with strong negotiating skills and demonstrated Problem solving
• Execute role with strong Project Management Skills
• Ability to interact with and feedback to IBM development organizations
• Size and scope services engagements