IBM Power & Storage Architect

Job Description Summary

The Arrow Experience Center is a complex enterprise data center and hybrid multi-cloud environment used to design build validate and maintain technology solutions. The Solution Architect IBM Infrastructure is responsible for designing deploying integrating and maintaining the enterprise infrastructure that enables IBM technologies within the Arrow Experience Center. This position provides technical leadership across Microsoft VMware networking storage Linux OpenShift and IBM platforms to ensure stable secure and scalable environments that support internal engineering teams and customer-facing technical engagements.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Design deploy integrate and maintain the enterprise infrastructure supporting IBM technologies within the Arrow Experience Center.

• Engineer and support enterprise lab environments used for IBM software deployment solution enablement and technical validation.

• Manage the lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure including deployment integration upgrades patching operational support and documentation.

• Administer Microsoft enterprise infrastructure including Active Directory DNS DHCP Group Policy Windows Server and identity services.

• Deploy and support VMware vSphere enterprise storage and virtualization technologies including ESXi vCenter Fibre Channel NFS and iSCSI.

• Deploy and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenShift IBM Fusion Hosted Control Planes and related IBM infrastructure platforms.

• Integrate and support multi-vendor networking compute and storage technologies to ensure reliable scalable and secure lab operations.

• Develop automation engineering standards operational procedures and technical documentation that improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to prepare and maintain enterprise environments supporting demonstrations evaluations and technical enablement activities.

What We Are Looking For:

• Required qualifications

  • Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a four-year degree; or 6 years with an advanced degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Minimum five years of enterprise data center infrastructure engineering or advanced lab experience.

  • Strong Microsoft enterprise infrastructure experience including Active Directory forests and child domains DNS DHCP Group Policy Windows Server and PowerShell.

  • Strong VMware vSphere administration including ESXi vCenter shared storage distributed virtual networking lifecycle management and automation.

  • Experience with enterprise networking concepts including VLANs Layer 2/Layer 3 LACP trunking and multi-vendor switching.

  • Experience with enterprise storage including IBM FlashSystem NetApp Fibre Channel SANs NFS and iSCSI.

  • Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift enterprise environments.

  • Excellent troubleshooting documentation communication and organizational skills.

  • Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and integrate new enterprise technologies.

• Preferred qualifications

  • IBM Power Systems experience.

  • IBM software platforms including Maximo Instana Turbonomic Watsonx or similar enterprise software.

  • Experience working in multi-vendor enterprise environments supporting IBM Red Hat VMware Microsoft NetApp HPE Dell and networking technologies.

  • Experience with public private or hybrid cloud platforms (Azure AWS IBM Cloud or similar) and an understanding of cloud infrastructure integration.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid: 3 days in office/2dayswork from home.

Whats In ItForYou:

At Arrow we recognize that financial rewards and great benefits are important aspects of an ideal we offer competitive financial compensation including various compensation plans and a solid benefits package.

• Medical Dental Vision Insurance

• 401k With Matching Contributions

• Paid Time Off(includingsick holiday vacation etc.)

• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options

• Growth Opportunities

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Climate controlled environment with excellent break room facilities

• Reinstatement return eligible

• Growth Opportunities

• And more!

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