Lightedge

Sr. Midrange Engineer - IBMi

Des Moines, Iowa · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 62 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentCloud PlatformsComplianceCustomer SupportPower ElectronicsTCP/IPNetwork MonitoringHIPAA

About the role

Using a combination of shared and private/dedicated platforms, LightEdge has been successful in offering businesses alternatives that streamline operations, improve reliability and reduce costs.
LightEdge is looking for experienced technical individuals for our IBMi - Sr.

Design, implement, administer, and support various aspects of the IBMi platform.
Maintain and deploy IBMi operating system upgrades, cumulative PTF packages, group PTFs, and individual fixes.
Design, administer, and troubleshoot IBMi backup and recovery solutions (BRMS) at an expert level, including Full System Flash Copy, VTL, and enterprise tape library architectures.
Support monitoring, automation, scheduling, and operations tools from Fortra such as CCSS, Robot Schedule, Robot Alert as well as others such as Nagios, Halcyon, or similar products.
Perform system tuning, performance analysis, and capacity planning for IBMi systems and logical partitions.
Provide Tier 3 support for escalating customer, operations, and application issues.
Manage multiple workstreams while maintaining focus on timely, accurate, and high-quality results.
Perform basic IBM Power System hardware maintenance and support activities.
Understand, recommend, and implement IBMi system and user security best practices.
Provide technical support, training, and direction to NOC staff and other team members.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years of hands-on experience supporting IBM Power System environments, IBMi systems, and related infrastructure.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking is required.
Experience with replication and high availability solutions such as MIMIX, iTERA, PowerHA, or similar technologies is also required.
Participate in 24/7 on-call support rotation as required.
Proficiency in planning and executing IBMi operating system upgrades, HMC updates, firmware updates, and related infrastructure maintenance.
Proficiency in IBMi work management, including subsystems, job queues, job scheduling, job monitoring, and performance tuning.

Emphasis on MIMIX and Power HA is a plus.
Strong working knowledge of IBM BRMS Enterprise environments a plus.
Experience with PowerVM and VIOS is preferred.
Experience with PowerVC, IBM PowerVS, and Live Partition Mobility(LPM) is preferred.
Experience with LPAR design, build, configuration, and validation is preferred.

LightEdge annually undergoes third-party audits for ISO 20000-1, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS 3.2, and SSAE 18 SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3.

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