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IT Infrastructure Engineer - IBM iSeries Specialist
This is a newly created role for an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a leading SME firm in the heart of Surrey as an IBM iSeries specialist. This role is paying £60,000 and offers hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days home).
Responsibilities
To be considered for this IT Infrastructure Engineer role, you will have a solid background in IBMi (IBM iSeries) & IBM Power Servers, providing remote customer support & maintenance, and design & implementation services. As an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer / IT Consultant, your skill set will include:
- IBM iSeries & IBM Power Servers Data Centre experience
- Network switches, routers & firewalls
- Some Microsoft Azure cloud
- Some VMWare & HyperV virtualisation
- Ideally Veeam &/or Commvault
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Working across the complete infrastructure, you will be responsible for designing, configuring, monitoring, automating, storage & disaster recovery systems & hardware, which will also include Backup As A Service, Disaster Recovery As A Service, and Hosting As A Service.
Working on an IT Service Desk in a small team of IBM specialists, you will provide remote customer support and remote data centre support to enterprise IBMi, Azure & VMWare environments. In addition to BAU support, you will also be responsible for scheduled OS upgrades, firmware upgrades, DR tests and Data Restore tests.
Any further experience with enterprise storage systems such as IBM, PURE, EMC &/or HP; and replication & backup tools such as Commvault, Mimix, Maxava, &/or Q-EDD.


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Location and Working Conditions
Based in Central Surrey (with onsite parking), my client offers hybrid working of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home. Please note – there will be 1 week a month of on-call support, where there is an additional weekly bonus for being on call + time & half / double pay for carrying out work.
Compensation
This role pays £60,000 and offers the chance to work with an impressive array of enterprise clients using the latest technologies.
If you are an experienced infrastructure engineer with solid IBMi / IBM iSeries, IBM Power Servers, Microsoft Azure, & VMWare skills, and you are looking for a new challenge, please send me your CV immediately.
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