IBM Series Administrator II / Systems Engineer

Menasha, WI, US • Posted 30+ days ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD 125,000.00 per year
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Job Details

Skills

  • Hudson
  • MI
  • Marketing Intelligence
  • IT Management
  • Servers
  • Innovation
  • Performance Tuning
  • Virtualization
  • Operating Systems
  • VIOS
  • MEAN Stack
  • Ansible
  • Testing
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • Mentorship
  • HMC
  • MIMIX
  • High Availability
  • VIO
  • DS
  • DirectShow
  • Storage
  • ITIL
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • AS/400 Control Language
  • Common Lisp
  • Scripting
  • Infrastructure Architecture
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Collaboration
  • Information Technology
  • Management
  • IBM I
  • IBM
  • Computer Hardware
  • Incident Management
  • Regulatory Compliance

Summary

PERMANENT IBM SERIES ADMINISTRATOR II / SYSTEMS ENGINEER ~ HYBRID 3 DAYS
SALARY: 125K + 7.5 % bonus
Locations:
  • Menasha, WI 54952 (Preferred)
  • Frederick, MD
  • New Hudson-Smith, MI
  • Huntersville, NC
  • McConnellsburg, PA
  • Pittsburgh, PA


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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex operational support, troubleshooting, security enforcement, and performance tuning across IBM Power systems and IBM i OS environments.
  • 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.
  • Experience administering IBM VIOS, 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 modify best practices, streamline patching/compliance, and reduce operational overhead and repetitive work
  • Support the design, testing, deployment and support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) to ensure ERP availability and business continuity.
  • Provide mentoring, guidance, and strong communication to bridge technical and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with modernization initiatives.
REQUIRED SKILLS
  • 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:
  • 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 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.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10105282
  • Position Id: 859172
  • Posted 30+ days ago
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