Summary
Leads client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) solutions. Owns engagements from discovery and design through implementation, migration, validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer. Provides deep IBM i expertise while contributing to selected adjacent hybrid cloud and data center projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Leads IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements.
Designs and delivers IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions using technologies such as BRMS, tape, FlashCopy, replication, and MIMIX or comparable platforms.
Plans and executes migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), including IBM Cloud account and IAM dependencies, workspace and virtual server provisioning, storage, networking, connectivity, image or data movement, cutover, rollback, and validation.
Produces concise delivery artifacts, including low-level designs, implementation plans, migration runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation.
Owns technical delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and communicates decisions, status, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
Provides knowledge transfer and mentors team members; contributes reusable practice improvements and delivery standards.
Designs hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads, including workspace and subnet design, Virtual Private Cloud, Direct Link or transit connectivity, and integration with client on-premises networks, identity, and monitoring.
Administers and implements IBM i changes, including operating-system upgrades, cumulative and group PTFs, prerequisite and compatibility reviews, troubleshooting, and post-change validation.
Configures and supports IBM Power infrastructure, including HMC or vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, resource allocation, network connectivity, and storage integration.
Demonstrates and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of Logicalis through performing behaviors consistent with the organization's values.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations as well as policies and procedures of Logicalis in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behaviors.
Supports and conducts self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Required Qualifications
Experience planning and executing IBM Power platform upgrades and migrations, including application, third-party software, licensing, interface, data-integrity, and high-availability dependencies.
Experience with IBM i backup and recovery, including BRMS, full-system saves, tape operations, and recovery testing; MIMIX or comparable high-availability experience is strongly preferred.
Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, IBM i Control Language, REST APIs, or vendor tools.
Strong hands-on IBM i administration and project-delivery experience in production environments.
Strong IBM Power experience, including HMC/vHMC, LPAR deployment and lifecycle, PowerVM concepts, VIOS coordination, firmware/code-level planning, and system resource allocation.
Working knowledge of IBM storage and SAN connectivity supporting IBM Power, such as IBM FlashSystem, Fibre Channel, zoning, host mappings, replication, and migration concepts.
Experience implementing or migrating IBM i or AIX workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), including IBM Cloud IAM, networking, storage, connectivity, provisioning, migration, and operational handoff.
Experience designing IBM Cloud and PowerVS network architectures, including VPC-style design, address planning with non-overlapping CIDRs,…