Senior IBM iSeries Engineer — Remote Specialist

First National Bank of Omaha; Arizona; Remote; USD 90,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k with Matching Contributions

Tuition Assistance

Disability Insurance

Time Off Programs

Job summary

FNTS seeks a Sr. IBM iSeries Engineer to maintain customer IBM i environments, plan migrations, ensure backups, and handle break/fix scenarios within a managed services team. You will contribute to project work and service delivery across client environments.

The role is remote, allowing work from anywhere in the United States, with no sponsorship. Collaboration on DR planning, OS upgrades, and routine maintenance ensures high availability and secure operations for FNTS customers.

Qualifications

• IBMiSeries System Administration with 10+ years experience.
• Knowledge of i/OS systems from V5R4 to V7R3 and major differentiators.
• Knowledge of POWER systems hardware.
• Experience configuring LPARs using the Hardware Management Console.
• Experience with storage management in JBOD, RAID, and SAN environments and the performance differences with each.
• Experience defining and troubleshooting Printer configurations.
• Experience configuring TCP/IP and associated servers in an IPV4 environment (IPv6 desired).
• Understanding of journal management.
• Software based replication (MIMIX, iTera, PowerHA).
• BRMS backup solutions for system recovery/migration.
• Familiarity with Physical and Virtual tape library configuration and implementation.
• OS Upgrades, PTF Deployment and software installation via Image Catalog.
• Experience using performance tools such as MPG.
• Experience configuring and deploying automation and monitoring tools such as Halcyon, absMessage, and Robot products.
• Experience coding and debugging CL.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations).
• Knowledge of AV/AR, web query, Flash Copy, and Global Mirror desired.

Responsibilities

• Respond to incidents and requests in a timely manner providing in-depth analysis and solutions to meet service level agreements
• Review previous issues looking for opportunities to proactively avoid future problems as part of the FNTS Continuous Improvement culture
• Perform reporting functions as required or requested by customer
• Preparation of special activities (DR Testing/Planning, OS upgrades, PTF deployment)
• Maintenance and configuration of the IBM i OS and Licensed Program Products (LPP's)
• Write and maintain system documentation
• Work with customers to accomplish their migration to FNTS or remote management setup.
• Using team roadmap, implement technologies to achieve it, e.g. develop new offerings through taking advantage of new hardware capabilities or additional OS capabilities such as Live Partition Mobility (LPM).
• Install new software (OS & major subsystem) releases while working with customer on timing/testing/implementation.
• Maintain golden/sandbox systems for templates
• Participate in technical infrastructure projects as the IBM i SME

Skills

IBM iSeries

POWER hardware

LPARs config

MIMIX replication

PowerHA

Halcyon

robot products

Tools

MIMIX

iTera

PowerHA

Halcyon

Robot

Job description

FNTS seeks a Sr. IBM iSeries Engineer to maintain customer IBM i environments, plan migrations, ensure backups, and handle break/fix scenarios within a managed services team. You will contribute to project work and service delivery across client environments.

The role is remote, allowing work from anywhere in the United States, with no sponsorship. Collaboration on DR planning, OS upgrades, and routine maintenance ensures high availability and secure operations for FNTS customers.