AS/ System Administrator

The AS/400 System Administrator responsible for delivery of AS/400 (IBM i) IT Infrastructure elements both on premise and on cloud hosted environments.

Experience: Minimum 6 Years

Responsibilities include:

• Understand the client’s overall IT architecture and AS/400 environment.
• Working in Account Delivery, he would support the IBMi Lead in the design and implementation of migrations be it newer hardware on premise hosting or to the public cloud.
• Candidate should be capable of solving complex technical problems and making sound technical decisions independently.
• Besides supporting BAU operations, candidate will be responsible and accountable for handling and resolving P1/P2 incidents till closure & RCA thereafter.
• Owning and managing system security at IBMi level.
• Debug minor OS, DB2 and other ISV product problems and apply fixes if necessary. Work with IBM/ISVs for technical support if necessary.
• IBM and other ISV software installation and maintenance
• Manage and secure network connectivity and communications related to the IBMi platform.
• Establish and adhere to IT industry best practices and standards for client’s Power Systems for IBMi (AS/400).
• Consult with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess IBMi system requirements.
• Should be capable of working in a team carrying out core activities such as system build and implementations, migrations, OS upgrades, DR exercises and handling P1 incidents.
• The role requires provision of out of hours support for the implementation of hardware/software changes and support for other projects requiring IBMi infrastructure expertise as well as being part of an on-call rota.
• Should be ready and available to work on various time zones depending on client needs.

Skill and Experience (Essential)

• Engineering Degree with 4-8 years of experience in IT AS/400 System Administration support in a high demand-based, service-oriented environment
• Sound hands on experience in working on AS/400 environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR administrator, System Capacity & Performance tuning, OS & other third-party Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance.
• Experience of working in international business environments handling complex AS/400 environments either on-premises or on cloud.
• Knowledge of performing ‘Performance Tuning’ of the AS/400 environment. This includes query optimization, creating & fine-tuning indexes, access paths in conjunction with Application teams.

Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of AS/400 hardware, software, networked related devices and AS/400 client-access software, journaling, HMC management etc.

• Should possess the knowledge and ability to do fail-over testing from Production to DR system in a HA software replication environment.
• Fundamental knowledge of configuring and administering HA replication software such as MIMIX, iTera, etc.
• Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS.
• Should be an expert with hands-on knowledge and experience on various IBM Power System models.
• Experience in AS/400 migration and implementation projects.
• Public cloud (especially Azure/AWS/GCP/IBM) knowledge would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of AS/400 Migration and implementation from On-premises to Skytap on Azure or any other public/hybrid cloud would be a key differentiator.
• Good and effective written and oral communication
• Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management.