Sr. Hybrid Cloud Engineer

The Hybrid Cloud Engineer supports, maintains, and improves enterprise hybrid cloud, Linux, Unix, IBM Power, AIX, storage, virtualization, automation, and resiliency platforms. This role blends hands-on operational engineering with modern cloud practices across Microsoft Azure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM Power Systems, AIX, VIOS, HMC, NIM, SAN storage, hypervisors, Puppet, Git, Terraform, monitoring, backup/recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle management. 

The engineer is expected to operate independently, execute approved changes with strong validation, troubleshoot complex incidents across infrastructure layers, produce clear documentation, and help advance secure, resilient, cost-conscious hybrid cloud operations. This role is intentionally focused on hybrid cloud, Linux/Unix, IBM Power/AIX, storage, virtualization, automation, and operational engineering.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

1. IBM Power Systems and AIX Engineering - Highest Priority 

• Administer IBM Power 8 and Power 9 enterprise systems, including hardware configuration, firmware lifecycle coordination, capacity planning, platform provisioning, hardware diagnostics, and system initialization support. 
• Support Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) configuration, IBM Power hardware monitoring, hardware maintenance coordination, and data center deployment activities across multiple locations. 
• Administer IBM AIX operating systems in enterprise production environments, including operating system configuration, patching, upgrades, device management, logical volume management, filesystems, networking, performance tuning, security maintenance, and troubleshooting. 
• Administer Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments, including virtual storage, virtual networking, client LPAR dependencies, resource presentation, maintenance coordination, and troubleshooting. 
• Design, provision, and support LPARs, including resource allocation, storage presentation, virtual networking, capacity validation, operational standards, and lifecycle management for mission-critical workloads. 
• Administer Hardware Management Console (HMC) environments, including LPAR creation and management, system monitoring, virtualization configuration, firmware update coordination, and infrastructure issue diagnosis. 
• Use Network Installation Manager (NIM) for AIX deployments, upgrades, maintenance activities, standardized builds, and disaster recovery processes. 
• Use SMIT/SMITTY for AIX administration, system configuration, package/fileset maintenance, operational support, and standardized procedure development. 
• Support AIX resiliency and recovery practices, including backup/restore validation, mksysb awareness, high availability support, performance review, and vendor escalation. 

2. Puppet Configuration Management 

• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Puppet-based infrastructure automation solutions for large-scale Unix and Linux environments. 
• Create and maintain reusable Puppet modules, classes, manifests, Hiera data structures, and role/profile patterns where applicable. 
• Use Puppet Enterprise or comparable Puppet control workflows to support configuration compliance, software deployment, server provisioning, patch orchestration, and baseline configuration management. 
• Troubleshoot Puppet agents, catalog compilation issues, code deployments, module dependencies, environment promotion, and configuration drift. 

3. Git Version Control and DevOps Practices 

• Use Git and Git-based repository platforms to manage infrastructure code, automation frameworks, configuration management content, operational scripts, and technical documentation. 
• Participate in branching strategies, merge requests, conflict resolution, code reviews, release management, environment promotion, and collaborative development workflows. 
• Apply DevOps best practices to