Overview
Remote
Up to $100
Contract - W2
Skills
IBM I
IBM iSeries
IBM DB2
IFS
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Job Details
Role:
- We re looking for someone who s been hands-on in reshaping traditional system environments, who knows how to transition from slower release cycles to faster, iterative deployment approaches.
- Create a roadmap for modernizing IBM i environments by integrating automation, cloud-based solutions, and DevOps best practices.
- Define strategies for self-service environments, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code to speed up development and testing.
- Review current IBM i AS/400 platform configurations and workflows to uncover issues slowing down code delivery.
- Build a phased plan for modernization: automation, cloud tie-ins, and faster dev/test environment spin-ups.
- Evaluate external tools and services that improve engineering speed and efficiency.
- Find ways to enhance performance while keeping infrastructure spending in check
- Align closely with engineering, infra, and ops teams to make sure environment plans meet actual business needs.
- Deep knowledge and demonstrated experience with IBM i (AS/400) systems, including LPARs, IFS, DB2/SQL, MQ, partitioning, and core middleware
- Expert level knowledge of LPARs, IFS, DB2/SQL, MQ, etc.
- Comfortable using IBM-native tools like Job Watcher and ACS for performance tuning.
- Implementing CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and managing version control with tools like MDCMS.
- Experience leading tech transformations, and the communication skills to bring people along for the ride.
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