Senior IBM i Platform Engineer

At Oshkosh we build serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

SUMMARY:

Join Oshkosh Corporation as a Senior IBM i Platform & Power Systems Engineer and play a key role in evolving one of our most critical enterprise this role youll own the architecture reliability security and modernization of our IBM Power infrastructure supporting mission-critical ERP systems across the enterprise.

Youll work across IBM Power hardware IBM i operating systems virtualization storage automation and high availability while helping drive initiatives in observability Infrastructure as Code AIOps and platform security. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges while influencing the future direction of a highly visible enterprise platform.

WHY JOIN OSHKOSH

• Own and influence a highly visible enterprise IBM Power environment supporting mission-critical business operations.

• Help shape the future of the platform through automation observability security and modernization initiatives.

• Work with enterprise technologies including IBM Power IBM i Ansible AIOps and high availability solutions.

• Collaborate with experienced infrastructure professionals while serving as a trusted technical leader.

• Join a stable global organization that continues to invest in its enterprise infrastructure and technology platforms.

WORK LOCATION

This position is based at our Menasha Data Center in Menasha Wisconsin. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates. Oshkosh Corporation follows a hybrid work model with three days on-site and two days remote each week.

YOUR IMPACT:

Plans designs implements and supports the server systems including 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.

• Serve as the technical lead and escalation point for complex operational support troubleshooting security enforcement and performance tuning across IBM Power systems and IBM i OS environments.

• Manage the IBM Power and IBM i ecosystem end-to-end including hardware virtualization and operating system administration.

• Administer IBM VIOS environments including configuration maintenance and troubleshooting.

• Drive the adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring reduce mean time to resolution and proactively identify issues.

• Advance automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible CL) to implement best practices streamline patching and compliance and reduce operational overhead through automation.

• Support the design testing deployment and ongoing support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) to ensure ERP availability and business continuity.

• Partner with infrastructure cybersecurity application and business teams to support modernization initiatives while maintaining platform stability.

• Provide mentoring technical guidance and strong communication to bridge technical and business stakeholders and help establish engineering best practices.

• Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities to ensure the continued availability of critical business systems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five (4) 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.

• 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.

Pay Range:

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