Senior Professional Services Consultant - IBM iSeries

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

Summary

Leads client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) solutions. Owns engagements from discovery and design through implementation, migration, validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer. Provides deep IBM i expertise while contributing to selected adjacent hybrid cloud and data center projects.

Essential Duties and 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 using technologies such as BRMS, tape, FlashCopy, replication, and MIMIX or comparable platforms.
• Plans and executes migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), including IBM Cloud account and IAM dependencies, workspace and virtual server provisioning, storage, networking, connectivity, image or data movement, cutover, rollback, and validation.
• Produces concise delivery artifacts, including low-level designs, implementation plans, migration runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation.
• Owns technical delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and communicates decisions, status, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Provides knowledge transfer and mentors team members; contributes reusable practice improvements and delivery standards.
• Designs hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads, including workspace and subnet design, Virtual Private Cloud, Direct Link or transit connectivity, and integration with client on-premises networks, identity, and monitoring.
• Administers and implements IBM i changes, including operating-system upgrades, cumulative and group PTFs, prerequisite and compatibility reviews, troubleshooting, and post-change validation.
• Configures and supports IBM Power infrastructure, including HMC or vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, resource allocation, network connectivity, and storage integration.
• Demonstrates and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of Logicalis through performing behaviors consistent with the organization's values.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations as well as policies and procedures of Logicalis in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behaviors.
• Supports and conducts self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications

• Experience planning and executing IBM Power platform upgrades and migrations, including application, third-party software, licensing, interface, data-integrity, and high-availability dependencies.
• Experience with IBM i backup and recovery, including BRMS, full-system saves, tape operations, and recovery testing; MIMIX or comparable high-availability experience is strongly preferred.
• Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, IBM i Control Language, 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/code‑level planning, and system 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.

Education/Experience/Technical Requirements / Certifications

Equivalent combination accepted.

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Experience / Technical Requirements

8 years of experience in professional services engineering work.

Certifications

The following certifications are preferred.

• IBM Certified Developer