**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Linux Security Engineer you will be installing, configuring, operating, and patching Linux servers/managing Linux applications. In addition, you will be providing secure application access. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Must have : Active Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certified Engineer certification * Expertise with installing, configuring, operating, and patching Linux servers/managing Linux applications. * Advanced knowledge of one or more of the following configuration management tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack. * Linux administration experience in a medium to large enterprise. * Experience with shell scripting including ssh, scp, rsync, and sudo * Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate) * Advanced knowledge of clustering services, load balancing and replication services * Must able to obtain a Government Agency clearance **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate) * Advanced knowledge of clustering services, load balancing and replication services * Hands on experience with automation efforts using more than one language including Python and experience with atleast one of the frameworks such as Flask, Django and FastAPI IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.