Senior Professional Services Consultant – IBM iSeries

Logicalis•Location, WV

2d•$110,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Leads client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) solutions. Owns engagements from discovery and design through implementation, migration, validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer. Provides deep IBM i expertise while contributing to selected adjacent hybrid cloud and data center projects. The role leads IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements. It designs and delivers backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions; plans and executes migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and PowerVS; and produces delivery artifacts such as designs, plans, runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation. The consultant owns technical delivery, manages risks and dependencies, communicates with clients and internal stakeholders, transfers knowledge, mentors team members, and contributes practice improvements and delivery standards. The position also designs hybrid connectivity, administers IBM i changes, and configures and supports IBM Power infrastructure. It requires national travel to client sites approximately 30% of the time, including occasional work outside normal business hours for implementation windows. The role has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Eight years of experience in professional services engineering work.
Bachelor's degree in a related field; equivalent combinations are accepted.
Strong hands-on IBM i administration and project-delivery experience in production environments.
Experience planning and executing IBM Power platform upgrades and migrations, including application, third-party software, licensing, interface, data-integrity, and high-availability dependencies.
Experience with IBM i backup and recovery, including BRMS, full-system saves, tape operations, and recovery testing.
Strong IBM Power experience, including HMC/vHMC, LPAR deployment and lifecycle, PowerVM concepts, VIOS coordination, firmware/code-level planning, and system resource allocation.
Working knowledge of IBM storage and SAN connectivity supporting IBM Power, such as IBM FlashSystem, Fibre Channel, zoning, host mappings, replication, and migration concepts.
Experience implementing or migrating IBM i or AIX workloads on PowerVS, including IBM Cloud IAM, networking, storage, connectivity, provisioning, migration, and operational handoff.
Experience designing IBM Cloud and PowerVS network architectures, including VPC-style design, non-overlapping CIDR address planning, subnets, routing, security groups and firewall rules, NAT, and public/private addressing and reachability.
Experience implementing hybrid connectivity from customer networks to IBM Cloud and PowerVS, including Direct Link or Transit Gateway and route-based IKEv2 VPN with redundant tunnels through to the LPAR.
Experience troubleshooting PowerVS environments and distinguishing infrastructure issues from IBM operating-system and standard support issues.
Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, IBM i Control Language, REST APIs, or vendor tools.
Ability and willingness to travel nationally to client sites approximately 30% of the time, including occasional work outside normal business hours for implementation windows.
Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to lead client-facing technical conversations and independently produce designs, runbooks, implementation documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Strong consulting, requirements-gathering, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
Self-directed, organized, collaborative, and accountable for delivery commitments.

Nice To Haves

MIMIX or comparable high-availability experience.
IBM Certified Developer - IBM i 7.x certification.
IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty certification.
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.5 AIX Administrator Specialty certification.
IBM PowerVS Technical Practitioner digital credential.

Responsibilities

Lead IBM i and IBM Power assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization engagements.
Design and deliver IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions using technologies such as BRMS, tape, FlashCopy, replication, and MIMIX or comparable platforms.
Plan and execute migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and IBM Power Virtual Server, covering cloud account and IAM dependencies, provisioning, storage, networking, connectivity, image or data movement, cutover, rollback, and validation.
Produce low-level designs, implementation plans, migration runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation.
Own technical delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and communicate decisions, status, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
Provide knowledge transfer, mentor team members, and contribute reusable practice improvements and delivery standards.
Design hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads, including workspace and subnet design, VPC, Direct Link or transit connectivity, and integration with client networks, identity, and monitoring.
Administer and implement IBM i changes, including operating-system upgrades, cumulative and group PTFs, prerequisite and compatibility reviews, troubleshooting, and post-change validation.
Configure and support IBM Power infrastructure, including HMC or vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, resource allocation, network connectivity, and storage integration.
Promote understanding of and commitment to Logicalis's mission and behave consistently with the organization's values.
Maintain working knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures and adhere to them through honest, ethical, and professional conduct.
Conduct oneself in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.