Required Skills: IT AS/400 system Administration, Hardware system and OS upgrades, various IBM Power System models

Job Description

• Engineering Degree with a minimum of 8+ years of experience in IT AS/400 System Administration support in a high demand-based, service-oriented environment (environments with 10+ LPARs) ensuring system availability of 99.9%.
• 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 in architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades is key.
• Experience of working in international business environments handling complex AS/400 environments either on-premise or on cloud.
• Knowledge of performing ‘Performance Tuning’ of the AS/400 environment. This includes query optimization, creating & fine-tuning indexes, access paths in conjunction with Application teams. 
• 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 QuickEDD, MIMIX, iTera, etc. Past fail over switch experience including journal analysis would be of added advantage.
• Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS.
• Average CL scripting skills is a requirement.
• Should be an expert with hands-on knowledge and experience on various IBM Power System models like E980, E950, S924, S922, S914, S824, S822, 770, etc.
• Ability to independently plan and lead an AS/400 migration and implementation project team is critical.
• Should be capable of leading and supporting a team in carrying out core activities such as system build and implementations, migrations, OS upgrades, DR exercises and handling P1 incidents.
• Public cloud (especially Azure/AWS/GCP/IBM) knowledge would be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of AS/400 Migration and implementation from On-premise to Skytap on Azure or any other public/hybrid cloud would be a key differentiator.
• Good and effective written and oral communication
• Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management