Sr. Midrange Engineer - IBMi

Light Edge Solutions is developing the IT solutions that will propel businesses forward over the next 10 years. Using a combination of shared and private/dedicated platforms, Light Edge has been successful in offering businesses alternatives that streamline operations, improve reliability and reduce costs.

If you are passionate about creating real solutions that help businesses with cutting‑edge technology, want to be challenged to think out of the box and be in a position where you can impact change on a daily basis, then Light Edge can offer you a dynamic corporate environment built on teamwork and personal responsibility.

Light Edge is looking for experienced technical individuals for our IBMi – Sr. Midrange Engineer position! As a part of the Light Edge team, this role is responsible for understanding client business and technical requirements, developing technical designs based on best practices, implementing solutions, creating documentation, and communicating effectively with both internal teams and clients.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years of hands‑on experience supporting IBM Power System environments, IBMi systems, and related infrastructure. This position is primarily responsible for the administration, maintenance, and support of IBM Power Systems running IBMi, including multiple logical partitions, message handling, command‑line utilities, work management, job and print control, device management, system configuration, security administration, backup and recovery, Client Access applications, external process and file transfer integrations, as well as OS and PTF management.

Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking is required.

Experience with replication and high availability solutions such as MIMIX, iTERA, Power

HA, or similar technologies is also required.

• Design, implement, administer, and support various aspects of the IBM i platform.
• Maintain and deploy IBMi operating system upgrades, cumulative PTF packages, group PTFs, and individual fixes.
• Design, administer, and troubleshoot IBM i backup and recovery solutions (BRMS) at an expert level, including Full System Flash Copy, VTL, and enterprise tape library architectures.
• Support replication and high availability software such as MIMIX, iTERA, Power
  
  HA, or similar solutions. Emphasis on MIMIX and Power HA is a plus.
• Support monitoring, automation, scheduling, and operations tools from Fortrasu such as CCSS, Robot Schedule, Robot Alert as well as others such as Nagios, Halcyon, or similar products.
• Perform system tuning, performance analysis, and capacity planning for IBMi systems and logical partitions.
• Provide Tier 3 support for escalating customer, operations, and application issues.
• Assist with object‑level implementations while following IBM i object‑level security best practices.
• Manage multiple work streams while maintaining focus on timely, accurate, and high‑quality results.
• Communicate clearly and professionally in a large enterprise and customer‑facing environment.
• Participate in 24/7 on‑call support rotation as required.
• Perform basic IBM Power System hardware maintenance and support activities.
• Understand, recommend, and implement IBM i system and user security best practices.
• Provide technical support, training, and direction to NOC staff and other team members.
• Configure LPAR’s and configure systems using both traditional Hardware Management Console and Virtual HMC.
• Work directly with vendor support organizations to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
• Strong working knowledge of IBM BRMS Enterprise environments a plus.

• Minimum of ten (10) years of hands‑on experience administering and supporting IBM Power Systems and IBM i environments.
• Strong knowledge of IBM i Power Systems administration, troubleshooting, and performance management.
• Strong knowledge of IBM i high availability setup, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting using MIMIX, iTERA, Power
  
  HA, or similar technologies.
• Proficiency in planning and executing IBM i operating system upgrades, HMC updates, firmware updates, and related infrastructure maintenance.
• Proficiency in IBM i work management,…