⭐ Level 3 Senior IBM i Systems Engineer

🚀 We're Hiring: Level 3 Senior IBM i Systems Engineer

📍 Location: To be confirmed
💼 Experience Level: Senior / Advanced
🕒 Position: Full-Time | Infrastructure Engineering

CloudSAFE is seeking a highly experienced Senior IBM i Systems Engineer (Level 3) to lead complex infrastructure engineering initiatives across hosted customer environments.

This is a hands-on senior technical role focused on IBM i and IBM Power infrastructure architecture, high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR), storage engineering, migrations, and complex production incidents.

You will play a key role in designing reliable enterprise environments, leading critical recovery activities, establishing technical standards, and mentoring other engineers.

• →Design, deploy, and troubleshoot IBM i partitions on IBM Power, including HMC, PowerVM, VIOS, virtual networking, and I/O.
• →Lead storage architecture and migration projects involving IBM FlashSystem and SAN environments.
• →Manage IBM i OS installations, upgrades, PTF strategies, firmware compatibility, and complex system issues.
• →Architect, implement, and troubleshoot HA/DR solutions using MIMIX, iTERA, QEDD, or PowerHA.
• →Lead disaster recovery tests, failovers, and recovery exercises, validating RPO/RTO objectives and data integrity.
• →Design and validate backup and recovery solutions using BRMS, VTL, Full-System FlashCopy, and FlashCopy Toolkit.
• →Lead infrastructure migrations across IBM Power hardware generations, data centers, and supported cloud environments.
• →Take ownership of complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and vendor escalations.
• →Mentor Level 1 and Level 2 engineers and improve operational standards, monitoring, and knowledge sharing.

• Strong, recent hands-on experience in production IBM i systems and infrastructure engineering.
• Proven ability to install and configure IBM i LPARs and independently manage HMC/PowerVM environments.
• Demonstrated experience with external SAN storage mapping and complex storage or I/O troubleshooting.
• Production experience implementing and troubleshooting at least one IBM i HA/DR technology, such as MIMIX, iTERA, QEDD, or PowerHA.
• Experience leading actual disaster recovery tests, role swaps, or failover/failback activities.
• Strong knowledge of backup and recovery engineering, including complex incident resolution.
• Ability to lead high-risk infrastructure changes and production recovery events.
• Excellent technical judgment, documentation, communication, and mentoring skills.

• Advanced hands-on experience with MIMIX installation, upgrades, switching, audit repair, and failure remediation.
• Full-System FlashCopy and FlashCopy Toolkit implementation.
• VIOS, SEA/VLAN, IBM FlashSystem replication, PowerHA, and PowerVS.
• Experience with AIX and complex storage upgrades or migrations.
• Knowledge of Cybernetics VTL and advanced BRMS recovery.
• Experience supporting large, multi-tenant managed-services environments.
• IBM Power or IBM i certifications and relevant technical training.

We need a senior engineer who can take ownership of complex infrastructure projects, make sound technical decisions, and lead critical recovery operations.

If you're an experienced IBM i engineer ready to lead enterprise infrastructure, HA/DR, and mission-critical recovery initiatives, we'd like to hear from you.

📩 Apply now and take the next step in your senior IBM i engineering career!