Senior IBM Power & i Solutions Consultant

Logicalis Malaysia Sdn Bhd; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis Malaysia Sdn Bhd seeks an experienced IBM Power/IBMi delivery leader to drive client-facing engagements from discovery through implementation, migration, validation, and knowledge transfer. You will provide deep IBM i expertise while contributing to related hybrid cloud and data center projects.

The role requires hands-on IBM i administration, design of backup/recovery and DR solutions, and design of cloud-centric IBM Power architectures. Travel up to 30% is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and executing IBM Power upgrades and migrations including dependencies.
• Experience with IBM i backup and recovery, BRMS, and high availability solutions.
• 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, 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 handoff.
• Experience designing IBM Cloud and PowerVS network architectures, VPC-style design, CIDR planning, subnets, routing, security groups, firewall rules, NAT, and reachability.
• Experience implementing hybrid connectivity from customer networks to IBM Cloud/PowerVS, including Direct Link or Transit Gateway and VPN.
• Experience troubleshooting PowerVS environments, distinguishing issues.
• Willingness to travel nationally ~30%.

Responsibilities

• Leads IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements.
• Designs IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions.
• Plans migrations between on-prem IBM Power and PowerVS, including IAM dependencies and provisioning.
• Produces delivery artifacts like low-level designs, runbooks, test plans, and documentation.
• Owns technical delivery, manages risks, and communicates decisions to clients and stakeholders.
• Mentors team members and contributes to reusable delivery standards.
• Designs hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads with VPCs and network integration.
• Configures IBM Power infrastructure, HMC/vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS, firmware planning, and storage integration.

Skills

IBM Power administration

Project delivery experience

Automation scripting

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Shell scripting

IBM i Control Language

Job description

Logicalis Malaysia Sdn Bhd seeks an experienced IBM Power/IBMi delivery leader to drive client-facing engagements from discovery through implementation, migration, validation, and knowledge transfer. You will provide deep IBM i expertise while contributing to related hybrid cloud and data center projects.

The role requires hands-on IBM i administration, design of backup/recovery and DR solutions, and design of cloud-centric IBM Power architectures. Travel up to 30% is expected.