Iseries (Ibmi/as400) Senior System Administrator - London, United Kingdom - Arcas Technology

Arcas Technology

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Arcas Technology is currently partnered with a UK based IT Consultancy, they are looking for an experienced iSeries (IBMi/AS400) Sr.

System Administrator to work for one of their key clients on a 6 month contract.

Role & Responsibilities

Senior AS/400 System Engineer with deep iSeries technical expertise responsible for setting up and implementing new Power System (P9) hardware running IBMi OS and migrating existing iSeries workloads to the same. Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain would be a key advantage and differentiator.
Understand the client's overall IT architecture and AS/400 environment and help migrate the old onpremises hardware to newer Power10 systems.
Working in Account Delivery, he would lead the design /she would be entrenched within the Kyndryl team working cohesively in planning out and implementation of the migrations from older hardware to P10 systems.
You will be responsible for ensuing data transfer from the older servers (DASD) to enterprise SAN storage and should have worked in a SAN storage environment supporting Power Systems ecosystem before.
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 and client best practices and standards as it relates to Architecting/ Designing client's Power/Cloud systems for Power Systems running IBMi.
Consult with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess IBMi system requirements.

Skills and Experience Required

10+ years of experience in IT AS/400 System Engineering and Administration experience implementing new Power System (P9) hardware with IBMi OS and migrating existing iSeries workloads to the same.
Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain
Support in a high demandbased, serviceoriented environment (environments with 20+ LPARs) ensuring system availability of 99.99%.
Sound hands on experience in working on iSeries environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR Administration, System Capacity & Performance tuning, OS & other thirdparty Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance.
Experience in architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades is key.
Good hands on exposure to PowerVM and VIOS
Experience working on PowerHA and MIMIX software are essential.
Should possess the knowledge and ability to do failover testing (including journal analysis) from Production to HA/DR system environment.
Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS.
Average CL scripting skills is a requirement.
Good and effective written and oral communication
Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management.

If you have the above skills and are available to start a contract then please forward your CV to Andy Dale at Arcas Technology.

Job Types:
Full-time, Temporary contract

Contract length: 6 months

Salary:
£400.00-£450.00 per day

Benefits: