Essential Consulting
Linux Programme Manager – IBM Z / LinuxONE
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Linux Programme Manager – IBM Z / LinuxONE
Location: Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite in Birmingham / Sheffield
Inside IR35: Day rate from £500-£650 per day
Essential Consulting are working with a Financial Services client who are looking for an experienced Linux Programme Manager / Senior Infrastructure Project Manager to lead the delivery and operational launch of a supported RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) hosting service on IBM LinuxONE / IBM Z.
This is not a generic infrastructure or mainframe PM position. Candidates must have a genuine Linux background and ideally previous experience delivering Linux on IBM Z / LinuxONE environments. You must have sufficient technical knowledge to challenge engineering teams, understand dependencies and drive technical decisions.
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- Lead the design, build and launch of a supported RHEL hosting service on IBM LinuxONE / IBM Z.
- Coordinate Linux, mainframe, network, storage, security and service-management teams.
- Define the service offering, including RHEL versions, server sizing, environments, availability and target workloads.
- Manage platform capacity, virtualisation, networking, storage, security and management-tooling dependencies.
- Validate application, middleware and vendor compatibility with Linux on IBM Z (s390x).
- Establish the operating model covering provisioning, patching, monitoring, backup and production support.
- Lead pilot delivery covering application compatibility, performance, recovery and support processes.
- Drive operational readiness, service catalogue creation, onboarding and production go-live.
- Own programme plans, RAID, dependencies, suppliers, budgets and key delivery decisions.
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Essential Experience
- Strong Linux / RHEL infrastructure experience.
- Experience delivering Linux on IBM Z / IBM LinuxONE.
- Knowledge of LPARs, IFL capacity and z/VM or KVM virtualisation.
- Understanding of enterprise Linux provisioning, patching, hardening, monitoring, backup and automation.
- Experience launching infrastructure services into production, including SLAs, support models, disaster recovery, operational acceptance and service catalogues.
- Strong cross-platform delivery experience spanning Linux, mainframe and wider infrastructure teams.
- Senior Programme / Project Management experience delivering complex infrastructure programmes.
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