Description:
IBM Platform & Systems Engineer
Hybrid: 3 days onsite at any of these locations: Menasha, WI or New Hudson, MI or Frederick, MD or Huntersville, NC or Mc-Connellsburg, PA or Pittsburgh, PA
Schedule: Mon-Fri
Benefits: Health, PTO’s, 7.5% bonus plan
Role:
Provide advanced technical leadership for IBM Power servers, IBM OS partitions, HMC, VIO Servers, and IBM DS storage arrays.
Requirements:
- Five or more years of experience in the field or in a 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.
YOUR IMPACT:
- 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, with responsibility for end-to-end management of the ecosystem spanning hardware, virtualization, and operating system administration.
- Experience administering IBM VIOS, including configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Drive the adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring, reduce mean time to resolution, and proactively identify issues.
- Advance automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, CL) to modify best practices, streamline patching/compliance, and reduce operational overhead and repetitive work
- Support the design, testing, deployment and support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) to ensure ERP availability and business continuity.
- Provide mentoring, guidance, and strong communication to bridge technical and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with modernization initiatives.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a 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.
- 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.