Advisory IT Engineer
About The Position
Lenovo is seeking an experienced Advisory IT Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer for its AI Cloud Services group. The role calls for 10+ years of Linux system administration experience and strong expertise in OpenStack, storage administration, cloud infrastructure, and virtualization technologies. The engineer will architect, build, migrate, and support scalable hybrid cloud environments across on-premises and public cloud platforms, partnering with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, automated, and cost-effective compute, storage, and cloud infrastructure solutions while advancing modernization, operational excellence, automation, security, and continuous improvement. This is a hybrid position based in Chicago, Illinois. The anticipated annual compensation range is $110,600–$169,510 USD. Final compensation depends on relevant experience, skills, and business considerations; candidates may also be considered for bonuses and/or commissions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Linux administration.
- 5+ years of experience with OpenStack.
- 5+ years of storage administration experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and migrate hybrid cloud infrastructure using on-premises OpenStack, VMware, Oracle hypervisor virtualization farms, and public cloud.
- Develop infrastructure solutions and road maps based on business requirements.
- Drive increased virtualization and cloud elasticity.
- Evaluate open-source infrastructure technologies to reduce operational costs and provide flexibility across cloud environments.
- Partner with application functional leads to anticipate changing infrastructure requirements.
- Implement orchestration and cloud infrastructure lifecycle management tools to support hybrid cloud self-service and improve development cycle times.
- Implement AI, automation, and self-service capabilities to lower operational costs and improve customer resolution times.
- Improve infrastructure operational efficiency through automation.
- Transform application hosting to reduce infrastructure costs and increase reliability, elasticity, and compute density.
- Migrate and consolidate infrastructure across data centers.
- Support business units in adopting current IT infrastructure technologies.
- Improve monitoring to respond to service interruptions more quickly and minimize business impact.
- Respond to infrastructure outages and coordinate recovery tasks as a recovery administrator.
- Conduct regular operational reviews and develop improvement plans.
- Perform ITIL incident, change, and problem management processes.
- Remediate infrastructure security vulnerabilities.
- Mentor technical resources, conduct solution reviews, and oversee implementation quality through design and code reviews, secure coding practices, and CI/CD and test automation tools and processes.
- Present product solutions and proposals to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Keep up with technology trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and participate in internal and external technology communities.
Benefits
- Candidates may be considered for bonuses and/or commissions.
- Lenovo benefits are referenced at www.lenovobenefits.com; specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
