Infrastructure Administrator (IBMi with French)

Company Description

Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. We operate in nearly 30 countries in the world, hiring more than 55,000 employees.
The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Currently, our team consists of around 1,000 specialists.

Within the Digital Platform Services department, our teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup or storage, as well as networking and security. We also have 1st line support consultants who speak French and English, but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The Application Services department is responsible for areas such as software development, data engineering, testing services, CRM, ITSM and ERP platform integrations, as well as application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

Job Description

We are looking for an Infrastructure Administrator (IBMi) to join Sopra Steria Polska and provides hands-on technical support and engineering for IBMi environments used in a managed-services context. The role covers day-to-day production operations, incident resolution, technical changes and project activities.

Please note that we can only offer cooperation to candidates located in Poland who are open to occasional visits to our office in Katowice.

Responsibilities:​

• Monitor IBMi environments, perform first-level analysis of system resources (CPU, memory, jobs, queues) and support operational issue resolution.
• Administer IBMi libraries, objects, data areas and user profiles, including creation, modification, access management, backup and recovery activities.
• Manage subsystems, JOBQ, OUTQ, MSGW situations and batch processing to ensure smooth production operations.
• Execute and analyse SQL queries using IBM i ACS and support data transfers between IFS and libraries.
• Support backup, restore and replication processes, including BRMS administration and operational recovery activities.
• Develop, maintain and troubleshoot CLP programs/scripts and technical operational tools.
• Handle incidents, service requests and production changes while ensuring proper documentation and adherence to procedures.
• Participate in disaster recovery (PRA), implementation projects, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

Must have requirements:​

• Minimum 5 years of recent, hands-on experience with IBM I environments  ( iSeries / AS/400 administration).
• Strong command of IBM i libraries, objects, data areas, subsystems, user profiles, jobs, JOBQ, OUTQ and MSGW.
• Practical experience with IFS, SAVF, SQL and IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS).
• Experience with backup, restore and replication controls; working knowledge of BRMS.
• Ability to write, read and troubleshoot CLP programs/scripts.
• Ability to analyse system resource usage, logs and operational symptoms and to identify corrective actions.
• Good understanding of production operations, incident management, request fulfilment and change implementation.
• French min. B2

Nice to have requirements:

• ITIL certification.
• Experience with IBM i in a banking, financial-services or other high-availability production environment.
• Knowledge of Axway CFT, including partner/flow configuration, operational checks and certificate management.
• Knowledge of SMA Technologies OpCon Workload Automation and OpCon Deploy.
• Experience with monitoring and ticketing tools such as Dynatrace, Jira or EasyVista.
• Experience with disaster-recovery exercises and production on-call support.

Additional Information

What we offer: 

- BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud), local kindergarten. 

ADDITION: free parking, fresh fruits, workation. 
In case of questions, please contact the HR team. 

The recruitment process for this position consists of two stages:
• a short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max)
• one-hour long interview on Teams (with both general and technical questions)

All information about salary range and its additional components will be provided during the 1st stage of recruitment process.

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.