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)