Senior Professional Services Consultant – IBM iSeries
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Senior IBM i consultant delivering IBM Power infrastructure, backup, and PowerVS migrations for Logicalis clients. Leading designs, implementations, documentation, and client knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities:
- Lead client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and IBM Power Virtual Server solutions
- Own engagements from discovery and design through implementation, migration, validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer
- Lead IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements
- Design and deliver IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions
- Plan and execute migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and IBM Power Virtual Server
- Produce low-level designs, implementation plans, migration runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation
- Own technical delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and communicate decisions, status, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders
- Provide knowledge transfer and mentor team members
- Contribute reusable practice improvements and delivery standards
- Design hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads and integrate with client on-premises networks, identity, and monitoring
- Administer and implement IBM i changes, including operating-system upgrades, PTFs, prerequisite and compatibility reviews, troubleshooting, and post-change validation
- Configure and support IBM Power infrastructure, including HMC/vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, resource allocation, network connectivity, and storage integration
- Support customer service expectations and comply with applicable laws, regulations, and Logicalis policies
- No supervisory responsibilities
Requirements:
- 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 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, including 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, non-overlapping CIDRs, subnets, routing, security groups, firewall rules, NAT, and public/private addressing
- Experience implementing hybrid connectivity using Direct Link or Transit Gateway and route-based IKEv2 VPN with redundant tunnels
- Experience troubleshooting PowerVS environments
- Ability and willingness to travel nationally to client sites approximately 30% of the time
- Willingness to work outside normal business hours for implementation windows
- Bachelor's degree in a related field; equivalent combination accepted
- 8 years of experience in professional services engineering work
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to lead client-facing technical conversations and independently produce designs, runbooks, implementation documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials
- Strong consulting, requirements-gathering, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
- Self-directed, organized, collaborative, and accountable for delivery commitments
Benefits:
- Bonus
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Inclusion and belonging valued
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- Potential medical testing covered as a client assignment requirement
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