Introduction

As a LinuxONE Cloud Infrastructure Administrator, you will have the opportunity to shape and transform the digital experience of our large and thriving LinuxONE hands-on Community Cloud as part of the global IBM Z Ecosystem and take it to new heights! You are the type of person who is passionate about staying up-to-date on the latest digital developments and trends, and delivering innovative and impactful digital experiences. To be successful, you must be highly motivated, detail-oriented, growth minded and a self-starter with a strong business acumen who knows how to get things done at big companies through influence, collaboration and partnering effectively across functional areas. In addition, you must have expertise as a Linux and LinuxONE administrator with specific advanced knowledge of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu distributions with advanced skills in scripting, root cause log analysis, ldap, databases, OpenStack, KVM, APIs and a variety of open source products such as Nginx, MariaDB, Apache, Java and Javascript. A strong sense of urgency and the ability to prioritize and manage a complex workload are essential.

As a Linux / LinuxONE Infrastructure Administrator, you will be an essential part of the team, that designs, develops and manages client-facing digital platforms with compliance to IBM digital marketing and business guidelines.

Your Role and Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality for digital platforms

• Ensuring high-performance and availability of platforms features and APIs

• Closely working with other teams, including marketing to ensure SEO, design, security standards & legal requirements are met

• Integrating with other existing systems through APIs and middleware layer

• Partnering with stakeholders to determine and implement digital strategies that serve as a basis for achieving user experience objectives and business metrics

• Managing digital reporting and tracking requirements to support programs as required, spanning activities and events registrations, form creation, usage, participation, gamification, etc. Conduct analysis of data and trends for executive level reporting

• Developing and managing various aspects of digital platforms related to usability, functions/features and user interface from a design perspective, working with internal stakeholders

• Sharing best practices and insights with internal / external stakeholders and gain alignment as needed for implementation and testing of new digital function/features

• Providing oversight for digital experience and governance; making recommendations to increase digital efficiencies, improve or resolve operational issues, extend digital reach, and improve ROI (e.g. digital outage contingencies, digital site compliance, leverage best practices and programmatic approaches, etc)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Expert in Linux Administration and infrastructure support (5+ years, Senior level)

• Expert working knowledge of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu Linux Distributions (5+ years, Senior level)

• Expert knowledge of Linux scripting to support automations (5+ years, Senior level)

• Expert in root cause log analysis (5+ years, Senior level)

• Expert in OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure support (5+ years, Senior level)

• Experience with open source database, webservers and ldap

• Experience with KVM configuration and support

• Experience & knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and their security/sessions/logging aspects

• Experience in integration with 3rd party platforms/solution through REST APIs

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Comfortable with settings up and working with web servers and database layer

• Experience in Cloud and Open Source development processes and tools

• At least 5-years of experience as a System Administrator

• Proven problem solving skills

• Demonstrated effective communication skills

• Demonstrated teamwork

• Highly self-motivated and resourceful

• Aptitude to learn and apply knowledge quickly

• Readiness to work in US Eastern time zone

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Working knowledge of IBM Z and LinuxONE

• Red Hat Open Shift infrastructure set up, design and support

• Working knowledge of Nginx, Java, MariaDB and other open source technologies

• Agile Scrum expertise

• Jira experience

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