Acabes International
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acabesinternational.com
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Company Description
Welcome to Acabes - Empowering Financial Technology and Innovation Globally. Acabes is the primary provider of cutting-edge software development, support, and services for Arab Bank and its affiliates worldwide. Our team is driven by a relentless pursuit of innovation, crafting solution platforms that boost efficiency and elevate productivity for our clients. We engineer scalable and sustainable solutions that cater to the specialized needs of the financial landscape.
Senior AS400 System Engineer with 4+ years of experience in deep iSeries technical expertise responsible for setting up and implementing new Power System (P9) hardware running IBMi OS and migrating existing iSeries workloads to the same. Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain would be a key advantage and differentiator
Understand the client's overall IT architecture and AS400 environment and help migrate the old on-premises hardware to newer Power10 systems
• IBM Power Hardware upgrade
• Banking experience preferred
• Power VM virtualization experience
• Migration Experience
• Experience in MIMIX and BRMS a bonus.
• Candidate should be capable of solving complex technical problems, communicating technical concepts to clients and peers with mixed levels of technical abilities, and making sound technical and architectural decisions independently.
• Candidate will be responsible for ensuing data transfer from the older Servers (DASD) to enterprise SAN storage and should have worked in a SAN storage environment supporting Power Systems ecosystem before.
• Manage and secure network connectivity and communications related to the IBMi platform.
• Establish and adhere to IT industry best and client best practices and standards as it relates to Architecting/Designing client's Power/Cloud systems for Power Systems running IBMi.
• Consult with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess IBMi system requirements.
Required Skills/Experience :
• A proven track record of experience in iSeries (IBMi) System Administration and support; Expertise in hands on iSeries hardware migrations would be an added advantage
• Robust knowledge of migrations processes and expertise having handled such workload in a large Banking domain
• Support in a high demand-based, service-oriented environment (environments with 30+ LPARs) ensuring system availability of 99.99%.
• Sound hands on experience in working on iSeries environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR Administration, System Capacity & Performance tuning, OS & other third-party Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance.
• Experience in architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades is key.
• Experience working in international business environments handling complex iSeries Banking enterprise application workloads.
• Experience working on PowerHA and MIMIX software are essential.
• Should possess the knowledge and ability to do fail-over testing (including journal analysis) from Production to HA/DR system environment.
• Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using BRMS.
• Average CL Scripting skills is a requirement.
• Good and effective written and oral communication
• Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident, Asset, Problem and Change Management.
Desirable Skills/Experience
• IBM certification on IBMi/iSeries System Administration
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