Linux Programme Manager

Job Title: Linux Programme Manager Location: Sheffield 3x a week Salary/Rate: up to £470 Daily Start Date: In the next two weeks Job Type: Initial 6 month contract Inside IR35 Company Introduction We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our enterprise financial clients They are currently looking for a skilled Linux Programme Manager to join their team for an initial six-month contract.

Role purpose: Lead the design, build and operational launch of a RHEL server offering on IBM LinuxONE. Work with the Mainframe, Linux, network, storage, security and service-management teams to define responsibilities and deliver a service application teams can consume.

Essential experience: IBM LinuxONE/IBM Z: Understanding of LPARs, IFL capacity, platform resilience and the chosen virtualisation approach-such as z/VM or KVM. Enterprise RHEL: Familiarity with provisioning, patching, hardening, monitoring, backup, automation and production support.

Cross-platform delivery: Experience aligning Mainframe platform practices with Linux engineering and application requirements. Infrastructure service launches: Delivery of service catalogues, support models, SLAs, disaster recovery, operational acceptance and onboarding.

Technical project management: Ownership of plans, dependencies, risks, suppliers, budgets and decisions across infrastructure teams. Key responsibilities Define the offering: Supported RHEL versions, server sizes, environments, availability tiers and target workloads.

Coordinate the architecture: Platform capacity, virtualisation, networking, storage, security and management tooling. Confirm workload readiness: Validate application, Middleware and vendor support for Linux on IBM Z (s390x)-do not assume x86 workloads can move unchanged.

Establish the operating model: Agree who provisions, patches, monitors, backs up and supports each layer. Lead a pilot: Prove provisioning, application compatibility, performance, recovery and support processes. Deliver production readiness: Secure operational sign-off, publish the service catalogue and manage initial onboarding. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally.

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