Senior IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries) Systems Engineer

Experience: 10+

Contract: Long Term

‼️Only GC, USC‼️

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Skills & Experience

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

o IBM i (i5/OS, OS/400)

o Power Systems

o CL Programming (CLP)

o Control Language Commands

o System Administration

• Experience with:

o PTF Management

o System Save/Restore Procedures

o Backup and Recovery

o BRMS (Backup, Recovery and Media Services)

o Job Scheduling

o Performance Monitoring

• Strong knowledge of:

o Libraries

o Objects

o Subsystems

o Job Queues

o Output Queues

o Security Administration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

o IBM Power10, Power9, or Power8 systems

o PowerHA

o MIMIX

o Quick-EDD

o Robot Scheduler

o Robot Console

o IBM Navigator for i

• Experience administering:

o Db2 for i

o Integrated File System (IFS)

o TCP/IP Networking

o FTP/SFTP

o SSL/TLS Security

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies:

o PowerVM

o VIOS

o Logical Partitions (LPARs)

Performance & Infrastructure Experience

• 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

Education

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

Desired Soft Skills

• 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.