Senior IBM i & Power Systems Architect (Remote)
Kyndryl Inc.
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Job summary
Kyndryl Poland is seeking a Senior IBM i Administrator & Power Systems Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. You will provide technical leadership and advanced support for IBM Power environments, ensuring stability, security, performance, and continuous improvement.
In this role you will plan upgrades, lead migrations, perform root cause analysis, and design DR/HA solutions, while coordinating with SAN teams and ensuring security/compliance.
Qualifications
- Strong experience administering IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) environments.
- Solid knowledge of IBM Power Systems architecture and infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with HMC administration, VIOS management, and PowerVM virtualization.
- Experience planning and executing IBM i OS upgrades and PTF maintenance.
- Planning and executing lifecycle maintenance across IBM Power servers, system firmware, HMC, VIOS, IBM i, and supporting infrastructure.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across OS, infrastructure, and storage layers.
- Experience with IPC management processes.
- Knowledge of backup and recovery concepts, BRMS, and disaster recovery practices.
- Experience with SAN-connected IBM Power environments.
- Understanding of IBM i security, user management, system values, auditing, and compliance requirements.
- Experience working with high availability and replication technologies.
- Ability to perform root cause analysis and lead technical investigations.
- Communication skills and ability to work directly with customers and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and advanced support for IBM Power environments.
- Ensure platform stability, security, and performance; drive continuous improvement.
- Plan and execute IBM i OS upgrades and PTF maintenance.
- Lead infrastructure modernization, migrations, and hardware refreshes.
- Perform root cause analysis for incidents and drive permanent resolutions.
- Design and implement disaster recovery, backup, and high availability solutions.
- Coordinate SAN zoning, masking, mapping and storage allocation with SAN teams.
- Support security compliance, audits, access management, and certificate administration.
- Define monitoring strategies and drive automation across the IBM i environment.
- Plan capacity, performance optimization, and resource utilization for critical systems.
- Support enterprise backup and recovery solutions (BRMS, tape, VTL, DataDomain).
- Support software entitlement and license-key readiness for migrations.
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Job description
Kyndryl Poland is seeking a Senior IBM i Administrator & Power Systems Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. You will provide technical leadership and advanced support for IBM Power environments, ensuring stability, security, performance, and continuous improvement.
In this role you will plan upgrades, lead migrations, perform root cause analysis, and design DR/HA solutions, while coordinating with SAN teams and ensuring security/compliance.
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