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

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

• 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.