Support and maintain Staples Canada's IBM iSeries infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, security, performance tuning, job scheduling, vendor software, and production promotion. The role coordinates with hosting partners and vendors, maintains system availability and compliance, troubleshoots critical issues, and provides after-hours support. This is a hybrid position requiring four days onsite in Richmond Hill.
Some of what you will do:
This role is to support Staples Canada’s IBM iSeries (AS/400) servers. You will work with our vendor / partners, be responsible for the daily operations of our systems, maintain maximum availability of our IBM iSeries servers.
Specifically, You Will:
- Lead projects associated to the enhancement upgrade / patching, or implementation of new or existing technology solutions on IBM I
- Work with hosting partner, install of cumulative PTFs and upgrade packages
- Setup Robot job scheduling and production promotion
- Maintain and upgrade third party vendor software on IBM I
- Setup, maintain and monitor IBM I security as per Security group requirement
- Conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Maintain compliance to all IT policies and procedures
- Provide after hour support to address critical business and / or IT issues
Some of what you need:
- 5 – 10 years of experience supporting IBM I systems as system engineer / system administrator
- Degree in computer science or engineering with relevant work experience
- Experience in IBM I v7.3 or above, including applying PTFs, OS upgrades, Backup and Restore, security management and printer queue setup
- Third Party Vendor Software Upgrades
- Experience in Robot Suites (Schedule, Console, Alert, Network etc), MIMIX configuration, Patrick Townsend setup
- Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio etc.)
Physical demands/working conditions:
Office environment – Hybrid, with 4 days onsite in Richmond Hill, subject to the hybrid policy.
Some of what you will get:
Associate discount
Health and Dental benefits
RRSP/DPSP
Performance bonuses
Learning & Development programs
And more...
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