IBMi / iSeries Engineer

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

My client is in urgent need of an experienced IBMi Engineer for a 3-6 month contract. This role will be hybrid with several days a week in Dorking, Surrey. It is paying between £400 - £500 p/d inside IR35.

To be considered for this IT Infrastructure Engineer role, you will have a solid background in IBMi (IBM iSeries) & IBM Power Servers, providing remote customer support & maintenance, and design & implementation services.

As an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer / IT Consultant, your skill set will include:

• IBM iSeries & IBM Power Servers
• Data Centre experience
• Network switches, routers & firewalls
• Some Microsoft Azure cloud
• Some VMWare & HyperV virtualisation
• Ideally Veeam &/or Commvault

Working across the complete infrastructure, you will be responsible for designing, configuring, monitoring, automating, storage & disaster recovery systems & hardware, which will also include Backup As A Service, Disaster Recovery As A Service, and Hosting As A Service.

Working on an IT Service Desk in a small team of IBM specialists, you will provide remote customer support and remote data centre support to enterprise IBMi, Azure & VMWare environments. In addition to BAU support, you will also be responsible for scheduled OS upgrades, firmware upgrades, DR tests and Data Restore tests.

Any further experience with enterprise storage systems such as IBM, PURE, EMC &/or HP; and replication & backup tools such as Commvault, Mimix, Maxava, &/or Q-EDD.

Based in Central Surrey (with onsite parking), my client offers hybrid working of several days work from home and several days work in the office.

This contract is paying £400 - £500p/d and sits inside IR35. If you are an experienced infrastructure engineer with solid IBMi / IBM iSeries, IBM Power Servers, Microsoft Azure, & VMWare skills, and you are looking for a new contract.