IBMi & IBM Power Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid Contract)

Ashdown Group; Dorking; Hybrid; GBP 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ashdown Group is seeking an experienced IBMi Engineer for a 3-6 month contract in the Dorking area. The role is hybrid with several days on-site in Surrey and remote work where possible.

You will work on IBM iSeries and IBM Power Server environments, providing remote support, maintenance, OS upgrades, and DR tests, while designing and implementing storage and backup solutions. Strong virtualization and backup tooling experience is essential.

Qualifications

• Solid IBMi (IBM iSeries) and IBM Power Server experience.
• Data Centre experience.
• Experience with backup tools such as Commvault, Mimix, Maxava, Q-EDD.
• Experience with Azure, VMware and Hyper-V.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, monitor and automate storage and disaster recovery systems and services.
• Provide remote customer support and data centre support to IBM iSeries, Azure and VMware environments.
• Schedule OS upgrades, firmware upgrades, DR tests and data restore tests.
• Support and manage Backup As A Service, Disaster Recovery As A Service and Hosting As A Service.

Skills

IBM iSeries & IBM Power Servers

Data Centre experience

Networking (switches/routers/firewalls

Azure cloud

VMware & Hyper-V virtualization

Backup tools (Commvault, Mimix, Maxava

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Azure

Commvault

Mimix

Maxava

Q-EDD

Job description

Ashdown Group is seeking an experienced IBMi Engineer for a 3-6 month contract in the Dorking area. The role is hybrid with several days on-site in Surrey and remote work where possible.

You will work on IBM iSeries and IBM Power Server environments, providing remote support, maintenance, OS upgrades, and DR tests, while designing and implementing storage and backup solutions. Strong virtualization and backup tooling experience is essential.