IBM i Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: IBM i Engineer

• Focus: Senior IBM i administration and IBM Power Systems infrastructure engineering

Description

Provide technical leadership and advanced support for IBM Power environments, ensuring stability, security, performance, and continuous improvement. Manage IBM Power infrastructure (Power servers, HMC, VIOS, LPARs, PowerVM) and plan/execute IBM i lifecycle activities including OS upgrades and PTF maintenance. Lead modernization, incident root-cause analysis, and design disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability solutions (PowerHA/replication).

Responsibilities

• Manage IBM Power Systems infrastructure (Power servers, HMC, VIOS, LPARs, PowerVM)

• Plan and execute IBM i upgrades, PTF maintenance, security updates, and lifecycle activities

• Lead modernization, migrations, hardware refreshes, and platform upgrades

• Perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes for recurring issues

• Design and implement disaster recovery, backup, and high availability (PowerHA, replication)

• Own IBM Power/IBM i configuration for SAN-connected environments and coordinate SAN storage tasks (zoning, masking, mapping, allocation)

• Support security compliance: audits, access management, certificate administration, and hardening

• Define monitoring strategy, improve operational tooling, and drive automation

• Plan capacity and performance optimization/resource utilization

• Support enterprise backup/recovery tools (BRMS, tape, VTL, DataDomain)

• Support software entitlement and license-key readiness for migrations and lifecycle activities

Requirements

• Strong IBM i administration experience in medium/large enterprises

• Solid knowledge of IBM Power Systems architecture/infrastructure

• Hands-on HMC administration, VIOS management, and PowerVM virtualization

• Experience executing IBM i OS upgrades and PTF maintenance

• Experience planning lifecycle maintenance across Power servers, firmware, HMC, VIOS, IBM i, and supporting infrastructure

• Strong troubleshooting across OS, infrastructure, and storage

• Experience with IPC management processes

• Knowledge of backup/recovery, BRMS, and disaster recovery

• Experience with SAN-connected IBM Power environments

• Understanding of IBM i security, user management, system values, auditing, and compliance

• Experience with high availability and replication technologies

• Ability to perform root cause analysis and lead technical investigations

• Communication skills for working with customers and vendors

Benefits

• Remote-friendly culture

• Private health card and life insurance

• Multisport card and sports activities

• Retirement pension plan and cafeteria platform (benefit points)

• Be Well program (legal, tax, psychology, coaching consultations)

• Free language courses and personal development opportunities (including certifications with Microsoft, Google, AWS)

• Benefits for parents and children