Senior AIX Engineer

First Citizens Bank; Georgia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior AIX Platform Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering team. You will design, engineer, and automate IBM Power Systems platforms that support critical banking applications, focusing on architecture, automation, and lifecycle strategy.

The role emphasizes platform modernization, IaC, Ansible development, and secure, resilient infrastructure. You will collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in IBM Power Systems and AIX engineering.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
• Strong experience in Ansible automation development.
• Experience with enterprise platform modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise AIX platform solutions supporting mission-critical applications.
• Develop platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and implement emerging IBM Power and AIX technologies.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives and lifecycle management strategies.
• Engineer highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Partner with architecture teams on strategic platform roadmaps.
• Serve as the primary engineering lead for enterprise AIX automation initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain Ansible automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance.
• Build CI/CD integration for infrastructure automation workflows.
• Create Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance models.
• Develop automated compliance validation, security remediation, and drift detection capabilities.
• Engineer self-service provisioning and platform automation capabilities.
• Establish automation coding standards and peer reviews for infra code.
• Engineer and support IBM Power platforms including Power9/Power10 and future generations.

Skills

IBM Power Systems

AIX engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Ansible automation

Platform modernization

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AIX Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and continuously improving the IBM Power Systems platform that supports critical enterprise and banking applications.

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AIX Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and continuously improving the IBM Power Systems platform that supports critical enterprise and banking applications.
This role focuses on platform architecture, infrastructure automation, configuration management, engineering standards, and lifecycle strategy rather than routine operational support. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in IBM Power Systems, AIX engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Ansible automation development, and enterprise platform modernization.
The successful candidate will collaborate with architecture, application, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to build scalable, secure, resilient, and highly automated platform solutions.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Platform Engineering & Architecture

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise AIX platform solutions supporting mission-critical applications.
• Develop platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and implement emerging IBM Power and AIX technologies.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives and lifecycle management strategies.
• Engineer highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Partner with architecture teams on strategic platform roadmaps.

Infrastructure Automation & Ansible Development

• Serve as the primary engineering lead for enterprise AIX automation initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain complex Ansible automation solutions supporting platform provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance, and lifecycle operations.
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, collections, playbooks, inventories, and automation frameworks.
• Build CI/CD integration for infrastructure automation workflows.
• Create Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance models.
• Develop automated compliance validation, security remediation, and configuration drift detection capabilities.
• Engineer self-service provisioning and platform automation capabilities.
• Establish automation coding standards, peer review processes, and software development best practices for infrastructure code.

IBM Power Systems Engineering

• Engineer and support IBM Power platforms including Power9, Power10, and future generations.
• Design and optimize virtualization architectures utilizing PowerVM, VIOS, and LPAR technologies.
• Lead platform migrations, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Engineer performance, scalability, and resilience improvements across the platform.

Security Engineering & Compliance

• Partner with cybersecurity teams to engineer secure-by-design platform solutions.
• Develop automated compliance and remediation solutions leveraging Ansible.
• Implement security hardening standards using Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
• Engineer solutions that support compliance with:
  • FFIEC
  • PCI-DSS
  • SOX
  • NIST
  • CIS Benchmarks
  • Enterprise Security Standards

Reliability Engineering & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation.
• Develop proactive monitoring, observability, and predictive maintenance capabilities.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts to identify engineering improvements and preventative controls.
• Drive platform reliability, performance optimization, and technical debt reduction initiatives.