At a Glance
- Tasks: Design, install, and manage IBM Maximo Application Suite across various environments.
- Company: Join a leading tech company with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Flexible work options, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement potential in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of technology, ensuring optimal performance and security of critical applications.
- Qualifications: Experience with IBM Maximo and Red Hat OpenShift is essential.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
The IBM MAS Infrastructure Specialist is responsible for the design, installation, configuration, and ongoing management of IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) across on-premise, bare metal and cloud environments. This role focuses on the underlying platform and infrastructure, ensuring MAS is deployed securely, performs optimally, and aligns with enterprise architecture and operational requirements. The specialist will work closely with application consultants, cloud teams, security teams, and client stakeholders to deliver reliable and scalable MAS environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, and upgrade IBM Maximo Application Suite components, including but not limited to: Maximo Manage, Monitor Health, Visual Inspection, Assist IoT integrations.
- Perform MAS installations using IBM Red Hat OpenShift on: On-premise infrastructure, Public cloud (Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud), Hybrid environments, Bare Metal.
- Manage MAS lifecycle operations including patching, upgrades, and version alignment.
- Deploy and administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters for MAS workloads.
- Configure persistent storage (block/file/object), networking and ingress, service mesh and routing.
- Troubleshoot cluster health, performance, and capacity issues.
- Design target architectures for MAS based on high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
- Provision infrastructure using VMware/bare metal (on-prem) and cloud-native services (IaaS/PaaS).
- Collaborate with cloud landing zone and networking teams.
- Implement security best practices, including TLS and certificate management, identity integration (LDAP, SSO, IAM), and secrets management.
- Ensure MAS deployments comply with enterprise security and governance standards.
- Provide 2nd/3rd line support for MAS infrastructure issues.
- Monitor system performance, logs, and alerts.
- Document environments, installation procedures, and operational runbooks.
- Support DevOps and CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
Required Technical Skills & Experience
- Proven experience installing and managing IBM Maximo Application Suite.
- Strong expertise with Red Hat OpenShift, Single Node OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Experience with containerized enterprise applications.
- On-premise platforms: VMware vSphere, storage and networking concepts.
- Cloud platforms (one or more): Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud.
- Load balancers, DNS, firewalls, and ingress controllers.
- Operating Systems & Middleware: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), IBM Db2, Oracle & MS SQL Server, Kafka (as used within MAS), object storage (S3-compatible).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible desirable), CI/CD pipelines (Git-based tooling), monitoring and logging platforms, MAS Ansible and CLI.
Desirable Skills & Certifications
- IBM Maximo or MAS certification.
- Red Hat OpenShift certification (e.g. DO280, DO380).
- Cloud certifications (Azure / AWS).
- Experience in asset management, utilities, transport, or manufacturing sectors.
- DevSecOps or SRE experience.
Soft Skills & Competencies
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Clear documentation and communication skills.
- Comfortable working with clients and project stakeholders.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and delivery-focused.
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As an IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) Infrastructure Specialist, you will join a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration, offering flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle. The company fosters a supportive work culture with ample opportunities for professional development and growth, ensuring that employees are equipped to excel in their roles while enjoying a healthy work-life balance. With a commitment to cutting-edge technology and employee well-being, this is an excellent place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
