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Your Role and Responsibilities The IBM Z Ecosystem Solution Admin & DevOps Engineer is an expert level admin with deep expertise in containerized environments and web servers with DevOps focus as well as traditional Linux solutions. Expertise in Linux (Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu) integrated with Docker / Kubernetes, DevOps, and Nginx / Apache, ldap and open sourced databases such as MariaDB are essential for role success. This role is responsible for defining, administering and supporting new and existing container based infrastructures as well as traditional Linux infrastructures, including coordinating the technical resolution infrastructure problems through knowledge of platform design and development. This role will collaborate with and assist teams with different skills to resolve problems and return infrastructure to operational status, including performing support related to all infrastructure issues, correcting design defects, and developing solutions to stabilize environments. In addition, this role will facilitate communications between technical teams and customers to ensure technical support requests are resolved rapidly with user satisfaction.
Primary duties:
Setting up and administering container-based infrastructures
Setting up and administering Linux infrastructure in a cloud environment utilizing Open Stack
Implementing and managing DevOps pipelines
Ensuring high-performance and availability of the infrastructure and systems
Configuring reverse proxies, ingresses and web servers for multi-instance environments
Troubleshooting and resolving incidents
Provide technical user support
Updating technical teams on project status
Writing and maintaining solution technical documentation
Maintaining communication with product customers
Support on technical solution through research and evaluations of technology
Assist in delivery of high-quality and innovative solutions
Follow IBM Guidelines and ensure solution compliance with IBM ITSS
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
Expert in Nginx / Apache web servers / reverse proxies
Experience in DevOps pipelines creation (Travis CI, Bash scripting)
Expert in container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes / OpenShift)
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 setting up and configuring database instances (MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL)
At least 5-year experience as a System Administrator
Experience in Cloud and Open Source development processes and tools
