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Job Title: Linux Programme Manager
Location: Sheffield 3x a week
Salary/Rate: up to £470 Daily
Start Date: In the next two weeks
Job Type: Initial 6 month contract Inside IR35
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our enterprise financial clients. They are currently looking for a skilled Linux programme manager to join their team for an initial six-month contract.
Role purpose:
Lead the design, build and operational launch of a RHEL server offering on IBM LinuxONE. Work with the mainframe, Linux, network, storage, security and service-management teams to define responsibilities and deliver a service application teams can consume.
Essential experience:
- IBM LinuxONE / IBM Z: Understanding of LPARs, IFL capacity, platform resilience and the chosen virtualisation approach—such as z/VM or KVM.
- Enterprise RHEL: Familiarity with provisioning, patching, hardening, monitoring, backup, automation and production support.
- Cross-platform delivery: Experience aligning mainframe platform practices with Linux engineering and application requirements.
- Infrastructure service launches: Delivery of service catalogues, support models, SLAs, disaster recovery, operational acceptance and onboarding.
- Technical project management: Ownership of plans, dependencies, risks, suppliers, budgets and decisions across infrastructure teams.
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Key responsibilities
- Define the offering: Supported RHEL versions, server sizes, environments, availability tiers and target workloads.
- Coordinate the architecture: Platform capacity, virtualisation, networking, storage, security and management tooling.
- Confirm workload readiness: Validate application, middleware and vendor support for Linux on IBM Z (s390x)—do not assume x86 workloads can move unchanged.
- Establish the operating model: Agree who provisions, patches, monitors, backs up and supports each layer.
- Lead a pilot: Prove provisioning, application compatibility, performance, recovery and support processes.
- Deliver production readiness: Secure operational sign-off, publish the service catalogue and manage initial onboarding.
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