IBM Platform Engineer

IBM Platform & Systems Engineer

Compensation: $120,000 - $125,000 per year.

Location: Hybrid: 3 days onsite at Menasha, WI or New Hudson, MI or Frederick, MD or Huntersville, NC or Mc-Connellsburg, PA or Pittsburgh, PA.

Schedule: Monday–Friday.

Role: Provide advanced technical leadership for IBM Power servers, IBM OS partitions, HMC, VIO Servers, and IBM DS storage arrays.

• Serve as the escalation point for complex operational support, troubleshooting, security enforcement, and performance tuning across IBM Power systems and IBM I OS environments.
• Expertise in IBM Power and IBM I OS, managing hardware, virtualization, and operating system administration.
• Administer IBM VIOS, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting.
• Drive adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring, reduce mean time to resolution.
• Advance automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, CL) to improve patching and compliance.
• Support design, testing, deployment, and support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) for business continuity.
• Provide mentoring, guidance, and communication between technical and business stakeholders.

• Five or more years of experience in the field or related area.
• Proven expertise with HMC, MIMIX HA/DR, VIO server, and IBM DS storage.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes, incident resolution, and stakeholder engagement.
• Skills in troubleshooting, CL scripting, and infrastructure design.
• Ability to work standard business hours, with availability for after-hours/weekend work during patching, OS upgrades, and on-call rotations.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

• Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or related area.
• Proven expertise with HMC, MIMIX HA/DR, VIO server, and IBM DS storage.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes, incident resolution, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated skills in troubleshooting, CL scripting, and infrastructure design.
• Availability for after-hours/weekend and on-call rotations.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing IBM I OS and IBM Power hardware environments.
• Experience implementing observability and AIOps initiatives.
• Familiarity with Fortra products (Alert, Console, Compliance Monitor, Exit Point Manager) or similar.
• Background in driving platform security initiatives and automating compliance.

Benefits include medical insurance, vision insurance, 401(k).

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