Senior IBM Power Systems Engineer

Job Title: Lead IBM i Platform & Systems Engineer

**Direct Hire Opening**

HYBRID - Must work 3 days a week at site. (NOT REMOTE)

Location: Prefer candidate within the Menasha WI area.

Open to candidates within the following areas:

Frederick MD
New Hudson-Smith MI
Huntersville NC
McConnellsburg PA
Pittsburgh PA

Looking for candidates with enterprise business experience. This candidate must be at a designer level. Someone who approaches problems with an engineering mindset rather than an operations perspective.


SUMMARY:

This role provides advanced technical leadership for our IBM Power servers IBM i OS partitions HMC VIO Servers and IBM DS storage arrays. The position ensures stability of our mission-critical ERP platforms while driving innovation in observability automation and security.


WORK LOCATION

The preferred location for this role is at our Menasha Data Center in Menasha WI. Relocation assistance available for candidates who are not local. This position follows a HYBRID work model with three days in-office and two days remote each week.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Serve as the escalation point for complex operational support troubleshooting security enforcement and performance tuning across IBM Power systems and IBM i OS environments.
2. Expertise in IBM Power and IBM i OS with responsibility for end-to-end management of the ecosystem spanning hardware virtualization and operating system administration.
3. Experience administering IBM VIOS including configuration maintenance and troubleshooting.
4. Drive the adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring reduce mean time to resolution and proactively identify issues.
5. Advance automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible CL) to modify best practices streamline patching/compliance and reduce operational overhead and repetitive work.
6. Support the design testing deployment and support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) to ensure ERP availability and business continuity.
7. Provide mentoring guidance and strong communication to bridge technical and business stakeholders ensuring alignment with modernization initiatives.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.

Proven expertise with HMC MIMIX HA/DR VIO server and IBM DS storage.
Strong understanding of ITIL processes incident resolution and stakeholder engagement.

Demonstrated skills in troubleshooting CL scripting and infrastructure design.

Ability to work standard business hours with availability for after-hours/weekend work during patching OS upgrades and on-call rotations.

Strong leadership communication problem-solving and collaboration skills.


STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelors degree in information technology or a related field.

10 years of experience managing IBM i OS and IBM Power hardware environments.

Experience implementing observability and AIOps initiatives to reduce noise accelerate incident response and drive predictive insights.

Familiar with Fortra products (Alert Console Compliance Monitor Exit Point Manager) or similar products.

Background in driving platform security initiatives and automating compliance.

Salary: $120-$125K and 7 1/2% bonus plan.