Infrastructure Design Engineer

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced IBM i Infrastructure Design Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. This role is responsible for the architecture, engineering, governance and highest-level technical support (L3/L3.5) of the organisation's IBM i (AS/400) platforms and associated IBM storage infrastructure.

The successful candidate will be a senior technical authority for IBM Power Systems, IBM i operating environments, high availability, backup, disaster recovery and storage platforms. The role combines deep IBM i expertise with broad infrastructure engineering knowledge and a strong focus on service reliability, automation, security and operational excellence.

The engineer will provide design leadership for the IBM i estate whilst acting as the senior escalation point for complex platform, operating system, storage and performance-related issues

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise IBM Power and IBM i infrastructure services.
• Own the architecture, standards and governance of the IBM i platform.
• Act as the L3/L3.5 escalation point for complex IBM i, Power Systems and storage-related incidents.
• Design and support high availability, replication, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Manage operating system upgrades, platform lifecycle management and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership for performance tuning, capacity planning and resilience improvements.
• Support and govern IBM storage systems used by the IBM i estate.
• Develop and maintain platform documentation, standards and operational processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, application and database teams to deliver stable and secure services.
• Develop and implement automation to simplify administration and operational activities.
• Support audit, compliance and security initiatives across the IBM i environment.
• Contribute to infrastructure transformation, datacentre and cloud integration programmes.