Senior Professional Services Consultant – IBM iSeries

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 - IBM i 7.x

• IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty

• IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.5 AIX Administrator Specialty

• IBM PowerVS Technical Practitioner digital credential

Other Skills and Abilities

• 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.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing duties of this job, employee is constantly required to sit, talk, see, hear, and use hands and arms. Employees are frequently required to stand; move about; climb steps or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities/duties required of personnel so classified.

Logicalis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to employ people who are qualified by reason of education, training, experience, and demonstrated performance.   We value inclusion and belonging at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, marital status, age, height, weight, disability, veteran status, or any other reason prohibited by applicable federal or state laws.

NOTE: It is Logicalis’ practice that when a client requires medical testing, the employee must accept that requirement as a condition of their assignment and either submit to the tests or show proof they’ve completed the test satisfactorily (i.e., TB Test negative).

Salary Compensation Range:  $110,000 to $150,000 plus bonus

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