ISeries (IBMi/AS400) Senior System Administrator

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Job Title: ISeries (IBMi/AS400) Sr. System Administrator
Location: Fully Remote – UK or any Europe Country
Salary/Rate: Up to £550 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: Immediate
Job Type: 6 Month Contract

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Senior AS400 System Engineer with deep iSeries technical expertise responsible for setting up and implementing new Power System (P9) hardware running IBMi OS and migrating existing iSeries workloads to the same. Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain would be a key advantage and differentiator

1. Understand the client’s overall IT architecture and AS400 environment and help migrate the old on-premises hardware to newer Power10 systems.
2. IBM Power Hardware upgrade
3. Banking experience preferred
4. Power VM virtualization experience
5. Migration Experience
6. Experience in MIMIX and BRMS a bonus.
7. Working in Account Delivery, would lead the design, would be entrenched within the Kyndryl team working cohesively in planning out and implementation of the migrations from older hardware to P10 systems.
8. Candidate should be capable of solving complex technical problems, communicating technical concepts to clients and peers with mixed levels of technical abilities, and making sound technical and architectural decisions independently.
9. Candidate will be responsible for ensuing data transfer from the older Servers (DASD) to enterprise SAN storage and should have worked in a SAN storage environment supporting Power Systems ecosystem before.
10. IBM and other ISV software installation and maintenance
11. Manage and secure network connectivity and communications related to the IBMi platform.
12. Establish and adhere to IT industry best and client best practices and standards as it relates to Architecting/Designing client’s Power/Cloud systems for Power Systems running IBMi.
13. Consult with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess IBMi system requirements.
14. The candidate will work UK business hours, and only support odd hours on an emergency need basis.

Required Skills/Experience

1. A proven track record of experience in iSeries (IBMi) System Administration and support; Expertise in hands on iSeries hardware migrations would be an added advantage
2. Engineering Degree with a proven track record in IT AS400 System Engineering and Administration experience implementing new Power System (P9) hardware with IBMi OS and migrating existing iSeries workloads to the same.
3. Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain
4. Support in a high demand-based, service-oriented environment (environments with 20+ LPARs) ensuring system availability of 99.99%.
5. Sound hands on experience in working on iSeries environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR Administration, System Capacity & Performance tuning, OS & other third-party Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance.
6. Experience in architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades is key.
7. Experience working in international business environments handling complex iSeries Banking enterprise application workloads.
8. Good hands on exposure to PowerVM and VIOS
9. Experience working on PowerHA and MIMIX software are essential.
10. Should possess the knowledge and ability to do fail-over testing (including journal analysis) from Production to HA/DR system environment.
11. Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS.
12. Average CL Scripting skills is a requirement.
13. Good and effective written and oral communication
14. Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management.

Desirable Skills/Experience

1. IBM certification on IBMi/iSeries System Administration

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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