Senior Professional Services Consultant – IBM iSeries

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee client-facing delivery for IBM i workloads, IBM Power infrastructure, and IBM Power Virtual Server solutions.

• Manage engagements from the discovery and design phases through implementation, migration, validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

• Lead assessments, designs, installations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization projects for IBM i and IBM Power.

• Design and implement solutions for IBM i backup, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber-resiliency.

• Plan and carry out migrations between on-premises IBM Power environments and IBM Power Virtual Server.

• Create detailed designs, implementation plans, migration runbooks, test plans, recovery procedures, and as-built documentation.

• Take ownership of technical delivery, manage risks and dependencies, and communicate decisions, status updates, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer and mentor team members.

• Contribute to the development of reusable practice improvements and delivery standards.

• Design hybrid connectivity for IBM i workloads and integrate with client on-premises networks, identities, and monitoring systems.

• Administer and implement changes to IBM i, including operating system upgrades, PTFs, prerequisite and compatibility reviews, troubleshooting, and post-change validation.

• Configure and support IBM Power infrastructure, including HMC/vHMC, LPARs, PowerVM, VIOS coordination, firmware planning, resource allocation, network connectivity, and storage integration.

• Meet customer service expectations and comply with relevant laws, regulations, and Logicalis policies.

• No supervisory responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in planning and executing upgrades and migrations on the IBM Power platform, including dependencies related to applications, third-party software, licensing, interfaces, data integrity, and high availability.

• Experience with IBM i backup and recovery processes, including BRMS, full-system saves, tape operations, and recovery testing; MIMIX or comparable high-availability experience is highly desired.

• Proficient in automation using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, IBM i Control Language, REST APIs, or vendor-specific tools.

• Extensive hands-on experience in IBM i administration and project delivery within production environments.

• Strong knowledge of IBM Power, including HMC/vHMC, LPAR deployment and lifecycle management, PowerVM concepts, VIOS coordination, firmware/code-level planning, and system resource allocation.

• Familiarity with IBM storage and SAN connectivity, such as IBM FlashSystem, Fibre Channel, zoning, host mappings, replication, and migration concepts.

• Experience with implementing or migrating IBM i or AIX workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), including IBM Cloud IAM, networking, storage, connectivity, provisioning, migration, and operational handoff.

• Ability to design network architectures for IBM Cloud and PowerVS, including VPC-style design, non-overlapping CIDRs, subnets, routing, security groups, firewall rules, NAT, and public/private addressing.

• Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity solutions using Direct Link or Transit Gateway and route-based IKEv2 VPN with redundant tunnels.

• Proficient in troubleshooting PowerVS environments.

• Willingness to travel nationally to client locations approximately 30% of the time.

• Availability to work outside normal business hours for implementation windows.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.

• A minimum of 8 years of professional services engineering experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to lead client-facing technical discussions and independently create designs, runbooks, implementation documents, and knowledge transfer materials.

• Strong consulting, requirements-gathering, troubleshooting, and analytical abilities.

• Self-directed, organized, collaborative, and accountable for meeting delivery commitments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Emphasis on inclusion and belonging.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Potential coverage for medical testing as required by client assignments.