LinuxONE RHEL Delivery Lead — Hybrid UK

HelloKindred; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HelloKindred in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Linux Programme Manager to lead design, build, and launch of a RHEL server offering on IBM LinuxONE. You will work across mainframe, Linux, network, storage, security and service-management teams to define responsibilities and enable a consumable service.

Strong technical project management with credibility in IBM LinuxONE, RHEL, and infrastructure delivery is required to drive a successful launch and ongoing operation, including

Qualifications

• Experience with IBM LinuxONE/IBM Z, including LPARs and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with enterprise RHEL environments: provisioning, patching, hardening, backup, production support.
• Cross‑platform delivery aligning mainframe with Linux engineering and application requirements.
• Experience delivering infra service launches with service catalogs, SLAs, disaster recovery and onboarding.
• Strong technical project management across infrastructure teams and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Define the RHEL offering: versions, server sizes, environments, availability tiers, workloads.
• Coordinate architecture across capacity, virtualization, networking, storage, security, and tooling.
• Validate workload readiness: app, middleware, vendor support for Linux on IBM Z.
• Establish operating model and ownership for provisioning, patching, monitoring, backup, and support.
• Lead pilots to prove provisioning, compatibility, performance, and recovery.

Skills

IBM LinuxONE

RHEL expertise

Infrastructure PM

Cross-team coordination

Job description

HelloKindred in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Linux Programme Manager to lead design, build, and launch of a RHEL server offering on IBM LinuxONE. You will work across mainframe, Linux, network, storage, security and service-management teams to define responsibilities and enable a consumable service.

Strong technical project management with credibility in IBM LinuxONE, RHEL, and infrastructure delivery is required to drive a successful launch and ongoing operation, including