Infrastructure Project Manager - #2166583

Job Title: Infrastructure Project Manager (LinuxONE)

Location: Birmingham / Sheffield 2 days a week

Contract Opportunity

Ideal Candidate: Senior infrastructure project manager with experience delivering Linux on IBM Z/LinuxONE services, rather than a generic infrastructure PM.

Role Overview:

Lead the design, build and operational launch of an enterprise RHEL hosting service on IBM LinuxONE, coordinating mainframe, Linux, network, storage, security and service-management teams to deliver a fully supported production service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the RHEL hosting service, architecture, capacity and virtualisation approach.
• Coordinate LinuxONE/IBM Z, Linux, network, storage and security teams.
• Validate application and vendor compatibility with Linux on IBM Z (s390x).
• Establish provisioning, patching, monitoring, backup, support models and SLAs.
• Lead pilot delivery, disaster recovery testing and production readiness.
• Manage delivery plans, risks, dependencies, suppliers, budgets and operational sign-off.
• Deliver service catalogues, operational runbooks and onboarding processes.

Essential Skills:

• Experience delivering Linux hosting services on IBM LinuxONE / IBM Z.
• Understanding of LPARs, IFL capacity and virtualisation technologies such as z/VM or KVM.
• Enterprise RHEL provisioning, security hardening, automation and production support knowledge.