IBM Consultant

🚀 Senior IBM i Systems Engineer (AS/400) | Remote LATAM 📍 Location: Remote - Latin America. 🕒 Schedule: Monday to Friday.

We are seeking a Senior IBM i Systems Engineer to support, maintain, and modernize a mission-critical IBM i environment that powers essential payroll and financial operations. This role is ideal for professionals who combine deep IBM i infrastructure expertise with strong troubleshooting, administration, disaster recovery, and systems engineering capabilities.

🔧 What You'll Be Doing. IBM i Systems Administration & Infrastructure. ✅ Manage and administer IBM i (AS/400) environments supporting mission-critical business operations. ✅ Configure, maintain, and optimize IBM i infrastructure, partitions (LPARs), and system resources. ✅ Support enterprise storage environments, backup strategies, and recovery processes. ✅ Monitor system health, performance, capacity planning, and operational stability. ✅ Troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents across IBM i systems. High Availability & Disaster Recovery ✅ Administer and support HA/DR solutions including:

• MIMIX

• iTERA

• QEDD

✅ Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution. ✅ Ensure business continuity and platform resilience across production environments. ✅ Maintain replication processes and validate recovery procedures. Platform Engineering & Operations. ✅ Support operating system upgrades, patching, and infrastructure improvements. ✅ Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents and system outages. ✅ Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and architecture teams. ✅ Document platform configurations, operational procedures, and recovery processes. ✅ Participate in long-term modernization initiatives for the IBM i ecosystem. Enterprise Systems Support. ✅ Support integrations between IBM i platforms and enterprise applications. ✅ Assist with environments connected to payroll, billing, ERP, and financial systems. ✅ Investigate system dependencies and infrastructure-related performance issues. ✅ Work closely with stakeholders ensuring platform reliability and availability.

✅ Required Qualifications. IBM i Infrastructure & Systems Engineering. ✔ 5+ years of hands-on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries / IBM i) experience. ✔ Strong IBM i systems administration and platform support experience. ✔ Experience managing and configuring LPAR environments. ✔ Experience with external storage, backup, recovery, and system operations. ✔ Knowledge of IBM i architecture, subsystems, performance management, and operational best practices. ✔ Experience supporting production-critical enterprise environments. High Availability & Disaster Recovery ✔ Experience with one or more HA/DR technologies:

• MIMIX

• iTERA

• QEDD

✔ Experience planning, testing, and executing disaster recovery processes. ✔ Understanding of business continuity and enterprise resiliency practices. Technical & Engineering Skills ✔ Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities. ✔ Ability to diagnose performance, replication, storage, and infrastructure issues. ✔ Experience assessing risk and impact across complex enterprise environments. ✔ Strong communication and documentation skills.

🛠 Technologies You'll Work With.

• IBM i (AS/400)

• LPAR Management

• MIMIX

• iTERA

• QEDD

• External Storage Systems

• Backup & Recovery Solutions

• DB2 for i

• RPG IV / ILE RPG (nice to have)

• CL

• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

• IBM Access Client Solutions (ACS)

• Rational Developer for i (RDi)