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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior IBM i Platform Engineer - **Company:** Oshkosh Corporation - **Location:** Oshkosh, WI, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $82,900.0 - $134,300.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** IBM System I, Business Systems, Performance Tuning, Ansible, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Information Technology, Ibm Power Systems, Network Server - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1db06073e2046b64 ## About the Role * Five (4) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area. * Proven expertise with HMC, MIMIX HA/DR, VIO server, and IBM DS storage. * Strong understanding of ITIL processes, incident resolution, and stakeholder engagement. * Demonstrated skills in troubleshooting, CL scripting, and infrastructure design. * Ability to work standard business hours, with availability for after-hours/weekend work during patching, OS upgrades, and on-call rotations. * Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills., * Bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field. * Experience managing IBM i OS and IBM Power hardware environments. * Experience implementing observability and AIOps initiatives to reduce noise, accelerate incident response, and drive predictive insights. * Familiar with Fortra products (Alert, Console, Compliance Monitor, Exit Point Manager) or similar products. * Background in driving platform security initiatives and automating compliance. ## Description Join Oshkosh Corporation as a Senior IBM i Platform & Power Systems Engineer and play a key role in evolving one of our most critical enterprise platforms. In this role, you'll own the architecture, reliability, security, and modernization of our IBM Power infrastructure supporting mission-critical ERP systems across the enterprise. You'll work across IBM Power hardware, IBM i operating systems, virtualization, storage, automation, and high availability while helping drive initiatives in observability, Infrastructure as Code, AIOps, and platform security. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges while influencing the future direction of a highly visible enterprise platform., * Own and influence a highly visible enterprise IBM Power environment supporting mission-critical business operations. * Help shape the future of the platform through automation, observability, security, and modernization initiatives. * Work with enterprise technologies including IBM Power, IBM i, Ansible, AIOps, and high availability solutions. * Collaborate with experienced infrastructure professionals while serving as a trusted technical leader. * Join a stable, global organization that continues to invest in its enterprise infrastructure and technology platforms., Plans, designs, implements, and supports the server systems, including IBM Power servers, IBM i OS partitions, HMC, VIO Servers, and IBM DS storage arrays. The position ensures stability of our mission-critical ERP platforms while driving innovation in observability, automation, and security. * Serve as the technical lead and escalation point for complex operational support, troubleshooting, security enforcement, and performance tuning across IBM Power systems and IBM i OS environments. * Manage the IBM Power and IBM i ecosystem end-to-end, including hardware, virtualization, and operating system administration. * Administer IBM VIOS environments, including configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting. * Drive the adoption of observability and AIOps practices to improve monitoring, reduce mean time to resolution, and proactively identify issues. * Advance automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, CL) to implement best practices, streamline patching and compliance, and reduce operational overhead through automation. * Support the design, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of HA/DR solutions (MIMIX or similar) to ensure ERP availability and business continuity. * Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, and business teams to support modernization initiatives while maintaining platform stability. * Provide mentoring, technical guidance, and strong communication to bridge technical and business stakeholders and help establish engineering best practices. * Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities to ensure the continued availability of critical business systems. ## Related Videos - [Building with IBM Bob](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100275-building-with-ibm-bob) - [Kubernetes Security - Challenge and Opportunity](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/412-kubernetes-security-challenge-and-opportunity) - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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