IBM Series Administrator II / Systems Engineer
Menasha, WI, US • Posted 9 days ago • Updated 9 hours ago
Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC
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Skills
- Hudson
- Marketing Intelligence
- MI
- 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
- Common Lisp
- AS/400 Control Language
- Scripting
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Conflict Resolution
- Collaboration
- Information Technology
- Management
- IBM I
- IBM
- Computer Hardware
- Incident Management
- Regulatory Compliance
Summary
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dice Id: 10105282
- Position Id: 859172
- Posted 9 days ago
Company Info
Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.
Motion also delivers IT Consulting Solutions through the Motion Consulting Group (MCG) that create true digital transformation for IT projects in Agile Development & Coaching, DevOps & DevSecOps Solutions, and Managed Services for IT Operations.
We’re also the proud creators of Tech in Motion and the Timmy Awards, our North American community platform, events series and award program that connects over 250,000 tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate.
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