Linux Specialist

Senior Technical Consultant - Linux SME

Sydney - Hybrid

We are working with a growing IT consultancy who specialise in IT infrastructure and storage. Due to a recent retirement and future growth, our client is looking for a senior level Technical Consultant to join their team in Sydney. Primarily working remote with some client site and datacentre visits.

The focus of this role is to work in a post-sales capacity with primary focus being to collaborate with sellers and deliver technical services to business partners on a transactional and project basis. Secondly, to deliver technology skills transfer to clients and business partner technical personnel. This role is internal and external facing.

This role will require on-call assistance 1 in every 4 weeks. This time is compensated on top of your salary.

Technology:

• Datacentre Infrastructure Systems
• Software Defined Storage/Networking
• Hypervisors such as VMware, HyperV, KVM, PowerVM, Nutanix, etc.
• Midrange and Enterprise disk subsystems
• Converged and Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud solutions
• Platform containerisation (Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Network Attached Storage
• Global Name Space and data lakes Storage Area Networks
• Storage Resource Management
• IBM Power Systems
• Open Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX)
• Networking
• Security (firewalls, VPN, Identity Management, Privilege Access Management, SIEM, SOAR, etc.)

Experience:

• 10+ years in the industry
• Validating and Assisting with business requirements
• Design, implementation, configuration, and management of IT Infrastructure and network solutions
• Generation and review of technical proposals and documentation (including design documentation)
• Positioning technology solutions
• Capacity to train and guide team members
• Account and/or project management - seeing a solution through end-to-end
• End-to-end problem determination and resolution ensuring issues are resolved and decisions made using correct data and considers circumstances and organisational needs
• Experience within an ICT support environment and meeting SLAs