Senior IBM ; AS​/400​/iSeries Systems Engineer

Job Title

Experience:

10+

Contract:

Long Term ‼Only GC, USC‼

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain IBM i (AS/400) systems.

• Perform IBM i operating system upgrades, PTF management, and system maintenance.

• Monitor and optimize system performance, storage utilization, and capacity.

• Configure and manage user profiles, security policies, and access controls.

• Support backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives.

• Manage job queues, subsystems, output queues, and workload performance.

• Troubleshoot operating system, hardware, and application-related issues.

• Support application development and deployment teams.

• Implement automation and operational best practices.

• Maintain technical documentation, standards, and procedures.

• Participate in production support and on-call rotations.

• 5+ years of experience supporting IBM i / AS/400 environments.

• Strong experience with:

• IBM i (i5/OS, OS/400)
• Power Systems
• CL Programming (CLP)
• Control Language Commands
• System Administration

• Experience with:

• PTF Management
• System Save/Restore Procedures
• Backup and Recovery
• BRMS (Backup, Recovery and Media Services)
• Job Scheduling
• Performance Monitoring

• Strong knowledge of:

• Libraries
• Objects
• Subsystems
• Job Queues
• Output Queues
• Security Administration

• Experience with:

• IBM Power
  10, Power9, or Power8 systems
• PowerHA
• MIMIX
• Quick-EDD
• Robot Scheduler
• Robot Console
• IBM Navigator for i

• Experience administering:

• Db2 for i
• Integrated File System (IFS)
• TCP/IP Networking
• FTP/SFTP
• SSL/TLS Security

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies:

• PowerVM
• VIOS
• Logical Partitions (LPARs)

• System performance tuning

• Storage optimization

• Job scheduling and workload management

• Capacity planning

• High availability configuration

• Disaster recovery testing

• Security auditing and compliance

• Hardware and operating system upgrades

Preferred Software Experience

• IBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, or later

• Db2 for i

• BRMS

• PowerHA

• MIMIX

• Robot Scheduler

• Robot Console

• IBM Navigator for i

• PowerVM

• VIOS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate across infrastructure, application, database, network, and security teams.

• Experience supporting banking, manufacturing, insurance, retail, logistics, or healthcare organizations is highly desirable.