Senior IBM Power / IBM i Systems Engineer

Location: Huntersville, NC

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days in office / 2 days remote)

Compensation: $120,000 – $125,000 base salary

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior IBM Power / IBM i Systems Engineer to provide advanced technical leadership across IBM Power servers, IBM i OS partitions, HMC, VIOS, and IBM DS storage platforms. This role is critical to maintaining the stability, performance, and security of mission-critical ERP environments while advancing modernization efforts through observability, automation, and resilience initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the escalation point for complex operational support, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security enforcement across IBM Power and IBM i OS environments.
• Provide end-to-end administration and lifecycle management of IBM Power infrastructure, including hardware, virtualization, and operating systems.
• Administer IBM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), including configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Lead the adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and proactively identify system issues.
• Design and implement automation using Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Ansible, CL scripting) to streamline patching, compliance, and routine operational tasks.
• Support the design, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) solutions (such as MIMIX) to ensure ERP system availability and business continuity.
• Provide technical mentorship and clear communication to both technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with modernization and platform improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience supporting IBM Power and IBM i OS environments.
• Hands-on expertise with HMC, VIOS, MIMIX HA/DR, and IBM DS storage platforms.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes, incident management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills, CL scripting experience, and infrastructure design capabilities.
• Ability to work standard business hours with availability for after-hours or weekend support during patching, OS upgrades, and on-call rotations.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing IBM i OS and IBM Power hardware environments.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, or AIOps initiatives.
• Familiarity with Fortra solutions such as Alert, Console, Compliance Monitor, and Exit Point Manager, or similar tools.
• Background in driving platform security initiatives and automating compliance processes.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HRU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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