Infrastructure Engineer on IBM Z

  • Software Engineering
  • Professional

Infrastructure Engineer on IBM Z

  • Software Engineering
  • Professional

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions. You will be part of the IBM Db2® Analytics Accelerator and Data Gate team. IBM Db2® Analytics Accelerator is a high-performance component tightly integrated with Db2 for z/OS. It provides a hybrid transaction and analytic processing (HTAP) environment and delivers high-speed processing for complex Db2 queries to support business-critical reporting and analytic workloads. Whereas Data Gate making mainframe Databases available to Cloud Applications.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for upgrading and maintaining the infrastructure required for product development, testing and production environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploying products in Mainframe – z/OS and Unix with fair knowledge on scripting.
  • Installing and upgrade of Db2 Stored procedures, analyse and tune queries
  • Change/define Workload Manager (WLM) rules/definitions, IPL procedures in LPARs
  • Upgrade TCPIP and TTLS rules
  • Be a hands-on person and involved in product installation/ configurations, troubleshooting (performance, 3rd party integrations, security)
  • Work for smooth delivery of assigned projects.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic development environment
  • Close collaboration with other teams, technical support teams and business stakeholders
  • Get things done – think outside the box and find creative solutions to tough technical problems.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 5-8 years’ experience
  • Deploying products in Mainframe – z/OS and Unix with fair knowledge on scripting.
  • Installing and upgrade of Db2 Stored procedures, analyse and tune queries
  • Change/define Workload Manager (WLM) rules/definitions, IPL procedures in LPARs
  • Upgrade TCPIP and TTLS rules
  • Working knowledge understanding of TCP/IP and network protocols.
  • Identify and recommend improvements that can be made to continuously evolve and improve.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
  • Good team motivator and strong relationship building skills.
  • Open to Cross Time Zone Collaboration
  • Ability to use conference and collaboration tools effectively


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Insatiable curiosity about how things work and a desire for continuous improvement
  • Ability to understand complex distributed systems.
  • Understanding of hardware-based software solutions.

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About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.


Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.


Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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.

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