Advisory IT Engineer

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Advisory IT Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer for its AI Cloud Services group. The role architects, builds, migrates, and supports hybrid cloud environments, partnering with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, automated, and cost-effective infrastructure. It also drives infrastructure modernization, operational excellence, automation, security, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, build out and migration of a hybrid cloud infrastructure using a combination of on-premises OpenStack, VMWare, Oracle hypervisor virtualization farms and public cloud
• Architect and provide infrastructure solutions and road maps based on business requirements
• Drive towards more vitalization and cloud elasticity
• Evaluate alternate open-source technologies for infrastructure solutions that both reduce operational cost and provide flexibility across various cloud environments
• Partner with application functional leads to anticipate changing business requirements for IT infrastructure services in a fast-paced Lenovo product business environment
• Implement the use of orchestration and cloud infrastructure life cycle management tool to effectively manage a hybrid cloud environment which will enable self-service functionality that will improve Dev OP team development cycle times and provide the business advantage of infrastructure elasticity to Lenovo
• Implement AI, automation and self-service capabilities to lower operational cost and improve customer resolution cycle time
• Improve infrastructure operational efficiency using automation
• Drive transformation of application hosting to continuously reduce infrastructure cost, increase reliability, elasticity, and compute density
• Migrate and consolidate infrastructure across data centers
• Provide infrastructure support that enables business units to utilize the latest IT infrastructure technologies to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Improve monitoring to respond to service interruptions quicker to minimize business impact
• Respond to infrastructure outages and perform function of recovery administrator to orchestrate support team recovery tasks
• Conduct regular operational reviews and improvement plans
• Perform ITIL process for incident management, change management and problem management
• Remediate infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Mentor technical resources, run solution reviews, and oversee implementation quality by performing design and code reviews, following secure coding practices, and utilizing CI/CD and test automation tools and processes
• Regularly present product solutions and proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external tech communities, and interact with other members of the engineering community

Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Linux Administration
• 5+ years of experience Open Stack
• 5+ years storage administration experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Engineer etc

Benefits

• This is a hybrid position based out of Chicago, IL
• Individuals may also be considered for bonuses and/or commissions.

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