Job responsibilities
- Applies technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope
- Drives a workstream or project consisting of one or more infrastructure engineering technologies
- Works with other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
- Executes creative solutions for the design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity
- Strongly considers upstream/downstream data and systems or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on infrastructure engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Deep knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments.
- Extensive knowledge in administering, configuring, building, troubleshooting & upgrading IBM i OS and component applications.
- Advanced knowledge in administering IBM Power Systems and Hardware Management Console (HMC).
- Ability to work with external Vendors such as IBM to troubleshoot problems and manage system events, failures and other application software, hardware, or IBM i component failures.
- Has extensive knowledge of Power HA and the Copy Services Toolkit for IBM i.
- Expertise in IBM i software replication tools, such as Rocket’s iCluster product.
- Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently with strong ownership, collaboration & communication skills.
- Detailed knowledge of IBM i Security and Audit with ability to manage authorization of objects, authorization lists, groups and profiles.
- Must be available and able to actively participate in team on-call and call out support, which may span overnight hours and weekends, based on support requirements, network, database, and application components.
- Working proficiency in Incident/Problem/Change management process and procedures.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement will be an added advantage
- Experience with continuous integration/development toolkits like GIT/Bit-bucket/Jenkins
- Exposure/competence with Agile Development practices, using Jira a plus.
- Advanced and practical knowledge of IBM i Performance monitoring, tuning, workload capping and resource allocation via HMC is optimal