• IBMi Delivery Consultant

    IBM (Rochester, MN)


    Introduction

     

    Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

     

    Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

     

    Your role and responsibilities

     

    IBMi Power HA High Availability (HA) Consultant

     

    An IBM PowerHA High Availability (HA) Consultant is a specialized IT professional focused on architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-availability solutions for IBM Power Systems running on IBM i. These consultants utilize technologies such as IBM PowerHA SystemMirror to build resilient infrastructures that ensure uninterrupted access to mission-critical applications and data. By leveraging clustering, failover automation, and recovery processes, they help client organizations achieve their business continuity and disaster recovery objectives.

     

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    Core Responsibilities

    1. Assessment & Planning

    * Analyze business requirements and design tailored HA strategies.

    * Recommend optimal PowerHA configurations, including data mirroring, site-to-site replication, and Power HA Tools for IBMi

    2. Implementation & Configuration

    * Build and configure HA clusters.

    * Set up shared storage, Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs), and resource groups to support high availability.

    3. Deployment & Migration

    * Lead migrations of applications and data to IASPs.

    * Deploy HA solutions across on-premises systems and cloud environments.

     

    Key Technologies & Concepts

     

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    IBM PowerHA SystemMirror

     

    Core clustering technology for ensuring data, application, and system resilience.

     

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    Clustering Infrastructure

     

    Enables automatic failure detection and resource failover across systems.

     

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    Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs)

    Facilitates flexible data and application mobility between systems for HA. * IBMi OS knowledge

     

    * JAVA AND C++ Programming skills are plus

     

    Required technical and professional expertise

     

    IBMi OS Background

     

    Power HA Tools for IBMi

     

    System Mirroring experience

     

    Experience with data replication

     

    IBMi High Availability knowledge of clustering environments

     

    Preferred technical and professional experience

     

    Jave and C++ programing language skills

    BRMS experience

    IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.