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Introduction

System Engineers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye, and the world remains safe because of the work our system engineers do. 

 

A system administrator (sysadmin) is responsible for managing, maintaining, and ensuring the smooth operation of an organization's IT infrastructure. Their job primarily revolves around servers, networks, security, and system performance. 

 

Your Role and Responsibilities 

 

Who You Are.... 

You possess a solid technical foundation paired with a willingness to wear several hats. Your core focus is to deliver highly available systems with extreme uptime through installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems and the software services running on them. 

 

Who You'll Work With... 

You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and independent team of engineers and other functions such as Architecture, QA, Product Management and Delivery to design, develop and manage advanced capabilities. We come to work thrilled knowing it will never be the same day twice.  

 

In this role, you'll employ your engineering expertise and best practices to... 

• Manage the critical IaaS infrastructure, a fleet of systems that run backend workloads 

• Manage and allocate tools, accelerators, frameworks, templates and other assets related to system productivity and quality that enable service delivery. 

• Foster an environment that enables teams to do things correctly, quickly, consistently and with less effort and learning.  

Your role and responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain business critical infrastructure and foundational tools – OS, Virtual Machines, load balancers, DNS, Chef, Splunk, Grafana, and more  

  • Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and issues, on time 

  • Support development teams from within and outside the organization in making use of core infrastructure. 

  • Continually improve systems and processes with regards to automation and monitoring. 

  • Monitor server performance and troubleshoot issues 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • 5+ years of strong, deep knowledge of Unix based computer operating system + system administration skill 

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with installing, decommissioning servers, operating virtualized environment, backup and recovery 

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience, very solid understanding of IP networking concepts. 

  • Intermediate to advance scripting abilities – Ansible, Chef and Python skills preferred 

  • Excellent oral and written communication 

  • Understand Root and Intermediate CA policies, key lifetimes, PKI standards, certificate renewal and installation 

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Vendor certifications : Red Hat, CompTIA  

  • Experience in RabbitMQ 

  • Experience in Redis and Zookeeper  

  • Experience in Memcache 

  • Experience in InfluxDB 

  • Experience in MongoDB 

  • Experience in Jenkins 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences


We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.


This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.