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LinuxONE Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)
Kforce • Armonk, NY
No Relocation
Posted: September 1, 2026
Responsibilities
- Support the entire LinuxONE estate across 4 physical locations
- Manage and support 13 LinuxONE Emperor 5 systems
- Deploy, administer, troubleshoot, and maintain LinuxONE infrastructure
- Provide technical leadership and consultative guidance for LinuxONE initiatives and migration solutions
- Administer and support LinuxONE infrastructure across multiple data centers
- Perform Linux deployment, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting
- Manage IBM HMC, LinuxONE systems, storage, and network connectivity
- Analyze requirements and recommend infrastructure and migration solutions
- Lead technical discussions with clients and internal teams
- Develop technical documentation and presentations
- Provide executive-level technical communication and consulting
- Lead or support Linux migration and modernization initiatives
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and provide root-cause analysis
- Collaborate with engineering/development teams when required
- Provide technical leadership and assist with project planning and infrastructure sizing
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience deploying and/or administering Linux on zSystems or LinuxONE
- 5+ years working with Red Hat, Canonical Ubuntu distributions
- 5+ years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift
- 5+ years of experience in client-facing communications, requirements analysis, technical documentation, presentations, and executive-level communication
- 5+ years of strong problem determination, troubleshooting, and debugging experience
- 5+ years administering Linux systems, including installation, maintenance, storage, and networking
- Strong experience with Fiber Channel/SAN technologies
- 5+ years of experience administering the IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- 5+ years of experience with Git, Ansible, Terraform
- Expert-level knowledge of Linux on zSystems/LinuxONE technologies
- Experience architecting and implementing Linux migration solutions
- Experience leading technical teams
- Ability to communicate and present effectively to client executive management
- Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Strong project management capabilities
- Experience collaborating with development organizations
- Experience sizing and scoping enterprise infrastructure/services engagements
- Experience with LinuxONE Emperor systems, particularly large-scale enterprise environments