Senior Consulting Engineer - IBMi

Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
Fueled by our shared passion and expertise, CDW delivers innovative technology solutions for our customers. We're also committed to fostering an environment that embraces collaboration, celebrates integrity, inclusivity, and individuality, and paves the path for personal and professional growth. Experience a life in balance and join us on the journey forward.
The primary purpose of this position is to actively participate in the design, integration, and delivery of a wide range of technology solutions to clients. This position will also provide mentorship, guidance and technical leadership to engineers and associate engineers. Integrate and deliver a wide range of technology solutions providing high quality content deliverables ensuring solution is implemented as designed to the client's satisfaction and approval.

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• Conduct advanced and complex engineering-related studies researching current and emerging technologies, evaluates alternatives, makes recommendations, and presents reports to management.

• Regularly interface with technical and business staff of customers, including the project sponsor and stakeholders of projects in more complex engagements. Mentor other engineers to apply engineering background knowledge for project design, analysis, and project coordination of services or products.

• Work with Professional Services Managers, ATAE's, Project Managers and customers to manage expectations and timelines to ensure expectations and commitments are being met.

• Maintain client relationships as a trusted Technical Advisor. Serve as a collaborative support across internal teams and clients when necessary, using experience and judgment to communicate effectively to all parties. Serve as technical point of contact on customer engagements. Participate in a variety of sales activities.

What we expect of you:

• The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience. They should have at least 5 years of experience in delivering complex technical solutions, including planning, development, implementation, and support.

• The candidate must demonstrate the ability to multitask and prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. They should be able to manage and escalate technical issues to the appropriate vendor support team.

• The candidate should possess strong organizational, time-management, problem-solving, and follow-up skills. They should have the ability to design and architect various types of infrastructure solutions and perform advanced installation and configuration services. Knowledge of vendor-supplied brands is also required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, with the ability to effectively interact with leadership stakeholders and clients. The candidate should maintain a professional, business-focused attitude and courteous manner towards clients, partners, and peers.

• The candidate should have a proven ability to identify and deliver technical documentation that meets client-defined expectations. They should pay strong attention to detail, especially client and project changes, and have demonstrated analytical skills to identify potential risks.

• The candidate should have a history of balancing competing priorities with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines. They should have demonstrated experience applying lessons learned to unique problems and a history of reskilling on new technologies with the ability to determine benefits for clients.

• The candidate must be able and willing to work beyond their regularly scheduled shift, select weekends, overtime as necessary or on occasion to meet operational needs. They should have the ability and willingness to travel as needed to other CDW locations or client sites. A valid U.S. driver's license is required.

• Proven track record of implementing Power Servers for external customers. This should include Power9 Servers and above, a plus

• Extensive experience with the IBMi (iSeries) Operating System, a plus

• Experience performing both firmware and Operating system upgrades on an IBMi (iSeries) platform, a plus.

• Experience performing system and LPAR migrations on an IBMi (iSeries) platform, a plus

• Experience implementing PowerHA on an IBMi (iSeries) platform, a plus.

• Experience implementing PowerVC on an IBMi (iSeries) platform, a plus.

• Experience performing IBM Power Health Checks, IBM Power Security Assessments, and IBM Power Performance Assessments, a plus

• Experience configuring IBM BRMS and IBM VIO servers, a plus.

• Installing and configuring hardware management consoles, a plus

• Implementing IBM FlashSystem storage that is connected to an IBM Power Server running the IBMi (iSeries) Operating System, a plus.

• The ideal candidate will also have these additional skills:

• IBM PowerVS Setup and Migration skills

• Cybernetics VTL or Data Domain VTL implementation skills

• IBM's FSR/FSFC Toolkit Implementation skills

• M81 Flash for i Toolkit implementation skills

• IBMi (iSeries) Single Sign-on implementation skills

• LPM/SRR Automation Tool implementation skills

• Mimix Replication Tool implementation and upgrade skills

• Skytap Power Cloud implementation skills

About us
We make technology work so people can do great things.
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider to business, government, education, and healthcare organizations across the globe. At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It's why we're coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we're headed. We're your long-term, full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner. We have the experience, expertise, scale, relationships, and deep industry knowledge to bring just about any vision to life. Together, we can deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/