Senior IBM Power & i Services Consultant

Logicalis, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis leads client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and PowerVS solutions. From discovery to implementation, migration, validation, and knowledge transfer, the role provides deep IBM i expertise while contributing to adjacent hybrid cloud projects.

The successful candidate designs, implements, and validates high-availability, DR, and cyber-resiliency solutions, mentors teams, and fosters reusable delivery standards across engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and executing IBM Power platform upgrades and migrations.
• Experience with IBM i backup and recovery, including BRMS, full-system saves, tape operations, and recovery testing; MIMIX or comparable high-availability experience is preferred.
• Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, IBM i CL, REST APIs, or vendor tools.
• Strong hands-on IBM i administration and project delivery experience in production environments.
• Strong IBM Power experience, including HMC/vHMC, LPAR deployment and lifecycle, PowerVM concepts, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, and resource allocation.
• Working knowledge of IBM storage and SAN connectivity supporting IBM Power, such as IBM FlashSystem, Fibre Channel, zoning, host mappings, replication, and migration concepts.
• Experience implementing or migrating IBM i or AIX workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), including IBM Cloud IAM, networking, storage, connectivity, provisioning, migration, and operational handoff.
• Experience designing IBM Cloud and PowerVS network architectures, including VPC-style design, address planning with non-overlapping CIDRs, subnets, routing, security groups and firewall rules, NAT, and public/private addressing and reachability.
• Experience implementing hybrid connectivity from customer networks to IBM Cloud and PowerVS, including Direct Link or Transit Gateway and route-based IKEv2 VPN with redundant tunnels, through to the LPAR.
• Experience troubleshooting PowerVS environments, distinguishing PowerVS infrastructure issues from IBM operating system and standard support issues.
• Ability and willingness to travel nationally to client sites approximately 30% of the time, including occasional work outside normal business hours for implementation windows.

Responsibilities

• Leads IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements.
• Designs and delivers IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions.
• Plans migrations between on-prem IBM Power and PowerVS, including cloud IAM and provisioning.
• Produces delivery artifacts: low-level designs, runbooks, test plans, and as-built docs.
• Owns technical delivery, manages risks, and communicates decisions to clients and stakeholders.
• Provides knowledge transfer and mentors team members; contributes delivery standards.
• Designs hybrid connectivity: VPCs, Direct Link, and network integration with client networks.
• Configures IBM Power infrastructure: HMC, PowerVM, VIOS, firmware planning, and storage integration.

Skills

IBM i admin

PowerVM concepts

VIOS coordination

HMC/vHMC

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Python scripting

REST APIs

Shell scripting

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

BRMS

MIMIX

PowerVS

IBM Cloud IAM

Direct Link

VIOS

Job description

Logicalis leads client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and PowerVS solutions. From discovery to implementation, migration, validation, and knowledge transfer, the role provides deep IBM i expertise while contributing to adjacent hybrid cloud projects.

The successful candidate designs, implements, and validates high-availability, DR, and cyber-resiliency solutions, mentors teams, and fosters reusable delivery standards across engagements.