Advisory IT Engineer

Lenovo; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an Advisory IT Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and support scalable hybrid cloud environments. The role centers on OpenStack, storage administration, and virtualization, delivering secure, automated compute and storage solutions for on‑prem and cloud platforms.

Based in Chicago, IL, this hybrid position collaborates with engineering teams to modernize infrastructure, improve reliability, and optimize costs while ensuring security and compliance across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Linux Administration experience.
• 5+ years of OpenStack experience.
• 5+ years of storage administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement hybrid cloud infrastructure using on‑prem OpenStack, VMware, and public cloud.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps and architectural patterns to support Lenovo’s AI Cloud Services.
• Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Lead security, compliance, and incident response for cloud platforms.

Skills

Linux Administration

OpenStack

Storage Administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/IS/Engineering

Job description

General Information

Req # WD00106582

Career area: Information Technology

Country/Region: United States of America

State: Illinois

City: Chicago

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Working time: Full-time

Additional Locations

• United States of America - Illinois - Chicago


• United States of America


• United States of America - Illinois


• United States of America - Illinois - Chicago

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world's largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo's continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo's world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Description and Requirements

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Advisory IT Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of Linux system administration experience and strong expertise in OpenStack, storage administration, cloud infrastructure, and virtualization technologies. This role will be responsible for architecting, building, migrating, and supporting scalable hybrid cloud environments across on-premises and public cloud platforms. Working within the AI Cloud Services group, you will partner directly with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, automated, and cost-effective compute, storage, and cloud infrastructure solutions while driving infrastructure modernization, operational excellence, automation, security, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This is a hybrid position based out of Chicago, IL

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Linux Administration


• 5+ years of experience Open Stack


• 5+ years storage administration experience

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Engineer etc.

Cloud Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy

• 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.

Automation, AI & Self-Service

• 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.

Infrastructure Transformation & Optimization

• 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.

Operations, Monitoring & Incident Management

• 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.

Security & Compliance

• Remediate infrastructure security vulnerabilities.

Leadership, Mentoring & Quality

• 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.

Communication & Continuous Learning

• 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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

Pay Transparency

The anticipated annual compensation range for this position is 110,600-169,510 USD. Final compensation will be based on relevant experience, skills, and business considerations. Individuals may also be considered for bonuses and/or commissions.

• Lenovo's various benefits can be found at www.lenovobenefits.com