Senior AIX Platform Engineer - Automation & Power Systems

First Citizens Bank; Arizona; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior AIX Platform Engineer to design, build, and automate enterprise AIX environments on IBM Power Systems. You will lead modernization efforts, create reusable automation frameworks, and collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure platform solutions.

The role emphasizes IaC, Ansible automation development, and lifecycle strategy beyond routine support, with a focus on platform reliability and governance across

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years enterprise experience designing, engineering, and supporting IBM AIX environments.
• 10+ years of experience with IBM Power Systems platforms.
• Expert-level knowledge of IBM AIX 7.x, Power Systems (Power9, Power10).
• 7+ years of hands-on Ansible development experience, with playbooks, roles, collections, modules, inventories, templates, and automation frameworks.
• Strong software engineering mindset with source control, CI/CD practices for infrastructure automation.
• Experience integrating Ansible with enterprise platforms (ServiceNow, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise AIX platform solutions.
• 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.
• Design reusable automation frameworks and CI/CD onboarding for infra code.
• Establish automation coding standards and peer review processes.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, operations teams on roadmaps.
• Engineer security hardening and automated compliance validation via IaC.
• Lead platform migrations, hardware refreshes, and modernization projects.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.

Skills

Ansible development

Ansible playbooks

YAML

Jinja2 templating

REST APIs

Automation orchestration

CI/CD

Source control

IBM AIX

Power Systems

PowerVM

LPAR

VIOS

HMC

NIM

Education

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years' experience in Systems engineer including systems programmer, scripting, troubleshooting

Tools

PowerVM

VIOS

LPAR

HMC

NIM

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior AIX Platform Engineer to design, build, and automate enterprise AIX environments on IBM Power Systems. You will lead modernization efforts, create reusable automation frameworks, and collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure platform solutions.

The role emphasizes IaC, Ansible automation development, and lifecycle strategy beyond routine support, with a focus on platform reliability and governance across