[Hiring] Senior Infrastructure Architect – AIX & IBM Cloud @DMS Vision

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect with deep expertise in AIX platforms to help evaluate and design our future-state infrastructure. This role will play a critical part in defining architectural options, assessing risks, and guiding decision-making—particularly around establishing a standalone infrastructure and migrating AIX Disaster Recovery environments to IBM Cloud.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on AIX experience combined with strategic architecture, migration planning, and advisory capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and recommend standalone infrastructure architectures for our system.
• Evaluate on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-based options for AIX workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Deep hands-on expertise with IBM AIX (mandatory).
• Strong experience with:
  • IBM Power Systems, LPARs, HMC, PowerVM.
  • AIX performance tuning and system design.
  • Proven experience designing or migrating AIX workloads to IBM Cloud.
  • Strong background in DR architecture and planning.
  • Ability to assess trade-offs between on-prem, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.
  • Excellent communication skills—able to present to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Provide architecture recommendations with cost, risk, and feasibility analysis.

Requirements

• Architect and design AIX environments for production and disaster recovery.
• Assess the feasibility of migrating DR AIX servers to IBM Cloud.
• Define reference architectures leveraging:
  • IBM Power Systems.
  • Power Virtual Server (PowerVS).
  • High availability and DR patterns.
• Address performance, security, and resiliency requirements for AIX workloads in IBM Cloud.

Benefits

• 100% REMOTE position.
• 6-month contract.