Linux Programme Manager - #2158074

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.

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.