Senior IBM i Engineer at Fidelity Bank in Location not listed

Senior IBM i Engineer

Job Overview: This role provides technical leadership across reliability, security, system performance, automation, and disaster recovery readiness for one of the Bank’s most vital technology environments. If you are an IT professional seeking full lifecycle technical ownership and the opportunity to shape modern enterprise infrastructure, we invite you to apply.

The candidate selected for this position will be responsible for:

• Lead administration and improvement of IBM i systems, Power Systems infrastructure, operational toolsets, and third party applications.
• Ensure maximum reliability, performance, security, and availability for IBM i systems tied to core banking operations.
• Oversee job scheduling, batch processing, backups, replication, high availability status, and workload completion.
• Support core banking applications and related operational functions, including payment processing, file transmissions, interfaces, reporting, and daily processing activities.
• Manage IBM i security administration, authority management, access controls, audit support, and remediation activities.
• Direct troubleshooting, incident management, root cause analysis, and long term corrective solutions for production events.
• Drive modernization efforts through process automation, scripting, standard operating procedures, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical mentorship to team members while guiding operational priorities and collaborating with cross functional stakeholders.

Requirements for the position include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5 or more years of advanced IBM i administration experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting IBM i platforms tied to banking solutions, financial cores, or other regulated, mission critical enterprise environments.
• Hands on expertise with BRMS, MIMIX, backup and recovery operations, disaster recovery testing, and high availability architecture.
• Working proficiency with CL, SQL, RPG, Ansible, APIs, or modern scripting and automation tools.
• Actively support incidents, planned maintenance, disaster recovery exercises, and after hours support as needed.
• Active participation in an on call rotation.

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

• IBM Power Systems certifications.
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Security+, Network+, or equivalent certification.

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