General InformationReq # WD00106582
Career area: Information Technology
Country/Region: United States of America
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Working time: Full-time
Additional Locations:
* United States of America - Illinois - Chicago
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Description and RequirementsJob Summary: We are seeking an experienced Advisory IT Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of Linux system administration experience and strong expertise in OpenStack, storage administration, cloud infrastructure, and virtualization technologies. This role will be responsible for architecting, building, migrating, and supporting scalable hybrid cloud environments across on-premises and public cloud platforms. Working within the AI Cloud Services group, you will partner directly with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, automated, and cost-effective compute, storage, and cloud infrastructure solutions while driving infrastructure modernization, operational excellence, automation, security, and continuous improvement initiatives.
This is a hybrid position based out of Chicago, IL
Basic Qualifications- 10+ years of experience in Linux Administration
- 5+ years of experience Open Stack
- 5+ years storage administration experience
Preferred- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Engineer etc.
Cloud Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy
- Drive the architecture, build out and migration of a hybrid cloud infrastructure using a combination of on-premises OpenStack, VMWare, Oracle hypervisor virtualization farms and public cloud.
- Architect and provide infrastructure solutions and road maps based on business requirements.
- Drive towards more vitalization and cloud elasticity.
- Evaluate alternate open-source technologies for infrastructure solutions that both reduce operational cost and provide flexibility across various cloud environments.
- Partner with application functional leads to anticipate changing business requirements for IT infrastructure services in a fast-paced Lenovo product business environment.
Automation, AI & Self-Service
- Implement the use of orchestration and cloud infrastructure life cycle management tool to effectively manage a hybrid cloud environment which will enable self-service functionality that will improve Dev OP team development cycle times and provide the business advantage of infrastructure elasticity to Lenovo.
- Implement AI, automation and self-service capabilities to lower operational cost and improve customer resolution cycle time.
- Improve infrastructure operational efficiency using automation.
Infrastructure Transformation & Optimization
- Drive transformation of application hosting to continuously reduce infrastructure cost, increase reliability, elasticity, and compute density.
- Migrate and consolidate infrastructure across data centers.
- Provide infrastructure support that enables business units to utilize the latest IT infrastructure technologies to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Operations, Monitoring & Incident Management
- Improve monitoring to respond to service interruptions quicker to minimize business impact.
- Respond to infrastructure outages and perform function of recovery administrator to orchestrate support team recovery tasks.
- Conduct regular operational reviews and improvement plans.
- Perform ITIL process for incident management, change management and problem management.
Security & Compliance
- Remediate infrastructure security vulnerabilities.
Leadership, Mentoring & Quality
- Mentor technical resources, run solution reviews, and oversee implementation quality by performing design and code reviews, following secure coding practices, and utilizing CI/CD and test automation tools and processes.
Communication & Continuous Learning
- Regularly present product solutions and proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external tech communities, and interact with other members of the engineering community.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.
Additional Locations:
* United States of America - Illinois - Chicago
PAY TRANSPARENCYThe anticipated annual compensation range for this position is
110,600-169,510 USD. Final compensation will be based on relevant experience, skills, and business considerations. Individuals may also be considered for bonuses and/or commissions. Lenovo's various benefits can be found at
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