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Position Summary
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Act as third level technical support for all inbound calls providing 24*7 Infrastructure/Application Status surveillance utilizing monitoring, reporting & ticketing software.
Update tickets as required by standard procedures, review, assess and complete customer service requests for technical support and escalate to Supervisor if needed.
Active and regular maintenance of AS400/iSeries servers without assistance
Drive and execute all AS400/iSeries server administrative tasks without assistance
Troubleshoot all issues related to AS400/iSeries server administrative tasks without assistance
Drive proactive tasks for AS400/ iSeries servers without assistance
Document and develop next level AS400/iSeries administrators within team
Provide timely response to and follow up with customers for all alerts & tickets via email or phone.
Ensure timely resolution to trouble tickets, review and general clean up of Ticket queue.
Properly document customer interactions while routing and redirecting problems to correct resources
Recommended procedure modifications or improvements
Preserve and grow your knowledge of help desk procedures, products and services
Qualification Requirements:
Required Experience:
Experience in Data Center, ITOC, NOC or MSP industry experience preferred but not required
Preferred Experience:
Must be flexible schedule to accommodate a 24/7/365 industry; weekends, holidays and odd hours
Familiarity with using ticketing and IT monitoring tools, Microsoft Excel, Visio.
At least 4-6 years experience, preferably more, administering IBM i running on Power Systems servers
At least one major system hardware upgrade (for example POWER7 to POWER8, POWER9, POWER10)
At least one major operating system upgrade (for example, IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 to 7.2,7.3,7.5)
At least one full system restore (as if from a site-down crash)
Some experience in managing partitioned systems
Strong experience in using journaling, especially remote journaling
Understands the differences between independent ASPs, SYSBAS, and traditional ASPs
Understands the functional differences between logical replication and clustering
Keeps up with Technology Refreshes and has an awareness with new features and functions
Some experience managing IBM i with SAN-attached storage
Working knowledge of the HMC
Strong familiarity with the latest Memo to Users and v7.2 TR 2
Experience with Virtualized I/O (i hosting i, VIOS)
Must be capable to executing all AS400 administrative tasks without assistance
Must possess strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to interact with all levels of employees in a professional manner.
As an essential function of this position, the employee must be able to handle high levels of stress satisfactorily and be congenial with other employees and customers at all times.
The Data Center/ITOC/NOC is a fast-paced environment, critical thinking is essential. Ideas need to be extrapolated from one situation to another.
Familiar with Windows, SQL and VMware and network equipment like routers, switches, firewalls etc.
Working knowledge of help desk software, databases and remote access methodologies
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Excellent verbal and written communication skill
Ability to manage and trouble-shoot issues requiring problem resolution
Ability to work with others to accomplish business objectives
Must be highly organized self-starter
Strict adherence to company policies, confidentiality, and mature judgment must be demonstrated at all times.
Assigned duties should be performed in a timely and accurate manner
Mandatory Technical Skills
Monitoring iSeries Server, Storage, Database
Configuring Backups & Restoration
PTF Installation and Upgrade
Performance Analysis
System Management
Objects and User Profiles Audit
Server Security understanding
Operating HCM
System Resources (OUTQs, iSeries devices) Maintenance
Review Journal Receivers & Management
Audit Software Licenses to alert before the license expires
Monitor the Status of essential Jobs on iSeries
Monitor Critical System Messages
Review System Settings
Purge Old Spool Files
IFS Growth Monitor and Objects Audit
Monitor Physical Files Objects/Damaged Files
Review System Audit Levels
Performance Analysis & Capacity Planning
iSeries User Profile Maintenance
High Availability (HA) support /troubleshooting
Education :
Bachelor s degree in Computers or Computer Applications or Information Technology (B.Sc., CS, CA, CT, IT)
Associate s degree or Technical school is highly recommended with a strong knowledge of computer functionality
Physical Requirements:
This position requires morning, evening and graveyard shifts on rotation from office.
Working Conditions:
The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations
naling, HMC management etc.
Should possess the knowledge and ability to do fail-over testing from Production to DR system in a HA software replication environment.
Advanced knowledge of setting up, managing, and administering HA replication software such as MIMIX, iTera, Power HA, Maxava etc.
Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS, VTL
Average CL scripting skills is a requirement.
Should be an expert with hands-on knowledge and experience on various IBM Power System models.
Ability to independently plan and lead an AS/400 migration and implementation project team is critical.
Public cloud (especially Azure/AWS/GCP/IBM) knowledge would be an added advantage.
Knowledge of AS/400 Migration and implementation from On-premises to Skytap on Azure or any other public/hybrid cloud would be a key differentiator.
The Data Center/ITOC/NOC is a fast-paced environment, critical thinking is essential. Ideas need to be extrapolated from one situation to another.
Familiar with Windows, SQL and VMware and network equipment like routers, switches, firewalls etc.
Working knowledge of help desk software, databases and remote access methodologies
Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management.
Qualifications
Preferred Skill:
Sound hands on experience in working on AS/400 environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR administrator, System Capacity & Performance tuning, OS & other third-party Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance.
Experience working in international business environments with complex AS/400 environments either on-site or in the cloud
Experience in architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades is key. Good knowledge on IBM iSeries OS upgrade to V7R4 & V7R5
Hands on experience in Monitoring Tools; HA: PowerHA and BRMS software.
Familiarity with third party monitoring software will be an added advantage.
Knowledge of performing Performance Tuning of the AS/400 environment.
Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of AS/400 hardware, software, networked related devices and AS/400 client-access software, jour