Sr. Engineer iSeries Administration

Sr. Engineer iSeries Administration

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:

RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.

• Operate AS400/iSeries/Powerx systems and peripherals, including local and remote printers, input/output devices and consoles.
• Assist the user community with any questions or problems pertaining to system status.
• Operate all such systems within the Data Center and DR site; monitor the status of all systems and modify status jobs within the system, performing system backups and recovery.
• Manage overall health, data integrity and operational efficiency for all aspects of enterprise systems.
• Conduct IBMi (i5/OS & OS/400) Operating System Support and iSeries H/W & S/W configuration, installation, maintenance, PTF/APAR management, printer configuration and support.
• Direct APAR management of the High Availability (HA) products and IBMi Security Management.
• Administer OS Upgrades from one version to another; manage Hardware and software resources and LPAR/HMC.
• Administer user accounts and groups, including account creation, assignment, renewal, access/system rights, account profile setting, and password reset.
• Part‑time telecommuting permitted; must work from office 2 days per week.

4100 Beechwood Dr, Greensboro, NC 27410

$103,896 - $150,000/yr.

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field and 10 years of experience in the position offered or a related role.
• 10 years of experience in all of the following: working with IBMi operating system; working with PTF Management; installing and applying PTFs (Installing patches and fixes); performing Backup and Restoration thorough BRMS; applying LPAR/HMC technology; system performance planning; working on Robot, MIMIX, IPL, and HMC Concepts; managing incidents on IBMi related issues; working on System IPL issues; performing High Availability (HA) role Swaps;
  
  and managing unscheduled outages.
• 6 years of experience with all of the following: working knowledge of PCI and SOX Compliance; producing job performance analysis reports; handling system change requests;
  Performance and Capacity Management process/tool; and working with the following tools:
  Robot, MIMIX, Data Mirror, Dedicated Service Tools, SST, BRMS, Taatool, iTera, PM400, Thenon, Tivoli, Pentasafe, Patrol, Client access/400, and Mocha.

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