Job description
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
- Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
- A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
- Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
- A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
- Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future
Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Infrastructure Specialist at IBM you will support the infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward?
Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. As an Associate 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 solutions
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
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- RedHat Linux 6 or 7 ( being certified is not essential).
- Shell scripting experience in Linux/UNIX environment.
- Knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch etc)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform
- Storage experience i.e working with server disks file systems and volume management software (like LVM) and understanding various RAID levels
- Experience with working with infrastructure like racks hardware specifically Dell servers (BIOS IDRACS Cabling etc)
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 for at least a 2-year period prior to applying. For certain projects, all applicants must be British nationals with 5 years of unbroken residency, ideally 10 years.
Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
A Linux Infrastructure Specialist is required as part of a small team to design build configure and support medium scale server environments. Ideally you will have experience of creating and maintaining automated builds and patching for the operating system and middleware and other application components which will layer on top. You will need to be adaptable be able to learn and adopt new tooling and support complex middleware components and frameworks. You should have good writing skills to enable you to document the procedures and other aspects of the build.
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