Description
Role Title: IBMi Hardware Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: Sept 2025
Role Description:
- IBM Z Storage Manager
1. IBM zSeries Storage Management skills
2. Strong Technical Project management skills
3. Experience of working in a large enterprise of HSBC scale and complexity
Personal Experience:
- zSeries Storage Management / Engineering background preferred and / or experience to equivalent level
- Working and partnering with vendors (e.g. IBM, DELL, Broadcom)
- Supporting and / or leading technical management of large infrastructure deployment projects
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IT environment and the embedded controls within change, incident, and problem management processes
- Experience working with Agile working practices and tooling
- Experience and awareness of security, audit, risk and compliance within enterprise IT environment
Personal Skills:
- Ability to work under pressure to deadlines
- Strong work ethic
- Collaborating with others and building a network
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to pitch communications to a variety of stakeholders
Hardware Technical Skills:
- IBM DS8K disk hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills including DSCLI scripting and familiarity with HMC GUI
- DELL DLM virtual tape (VTE with Data Domain) hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills with knowledge of GUI, NFS and Linux
- Broadcom (Brocade) DCX hardware skills and FICON / FIBRE concepts and configuration. Set-up and utilising SanNav and Maps
Software Technical Skills:
- IBM core knowledge: z/OS, TSO, SDSF, JCL, IDCAMS, IWS
- IBM storage knowledge: DFHSM, DFDSS, ICKDSF, DFSMS (inc OAM), TDMF, GDPS , CSM
- Broadcom (CA): CA1 , CA Vantage , CA Disk , CA Allocate , CA View , Endeavor
- Dino Software : T-rex , Terradon
- Rocket : CR+
- Interchip : RTD
Additional Skills (optional):
- Knowledge of zSeries Systems Programming concepts & technologies
- Awareness of Network technologies & Dark Fibre concepts
- Awareness of newer or emerging technologies
- Awareness of IBM Virtual tape solutions (TS7700’s)
- Experience of data centre migrations
- Knowledge of : GKLM , Spectrum Control & Storage insights & API exploitation
- Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), GitHub , Jenkins
Programming / scripting languages : Rexx , Python , YAML
Role Purpose (overall high level summary):
The zSeries Storage Engineer is responsible for leading,buiding,and supporting the zSeries Storage hardware/software infrastructure.
This role will carry out some or all activities:
• Perform a Technical Project Management role for large zSeries infrastructure deployment & evergreening projects
• Setup automation to reduce manual interventions in the Storage infrastructure
• Test new software & exploit functionality
• Consolidate/reduce infrastructure complexity
• Risk/Cost Management
• Ensure Service Quality Targets are met for offered platform services
• Business stakeholder management
• Vendor liaison/management
• zSeries Storage hardware/software design/configuration/testing/implementation/support
Impact on the Business / Function:
• Regular qualification/testing/hardware/software/microcode for security/big fix,new features/functionality
• Code to be certified/released within timeframe given CSV
Customers / Stakeholders:
• Investigation/implementation new technologies deliver solutions optimal TCO organization whilst meeting core business requirements
• Architecture engineering design activity support business/domain requirements
• Production high-quality supporting documentation all engineered solutions operational consumption
All new releases fully agreed by all stakeholders
Leadership & Teamwork:
• Support for Storage teams normal operation,migration/infrastructure transformation projects
• Working collaboratively peers across domains/disciplines/vendors/partners deliver high quality solutions
• Working Agile mentality rapid delivery iterated features/components solution development lifecycle Attend team meetings 1–2–1s.
Demonstrate domain leadership as Storage SME.
Operational Effectiveness & Control:
• Key focus development automation tooling reduce manual interaction every opportunity Demonstrate reduction manual operational processes increased operational efficiency.
Major Challenges:
Must keep pace technology industry development.
Must engage effectively multiple stakeholders dry.
The role based group data centre part dispersed global team.Good team collaboration use communication tools expected(email MS Teams Zoom).
Individuals expected self-sufficient empowered do so but also work part team.