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About the Role
Seeking a highly experienced Senior AIX Platform Engineer to design, engineer, automate, and improve the IBM Power Systems platform supporting critical enterprise and banking applications. This role emphasizes platform architecture, automation, and modernization, rather than routine operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, engineer, and implement enterprise AIX platform solutions.
- Develop platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices.
- Evaluate and implement emerging IBM Power and AIX technologies.
- Lead platform modernization initiatives and lifecycle management.
- Engineer highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions.
- Partner with architecture teams on strategic platform roadmaps.
- Serve as the primary engineering lead for enterprise AIX automation.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Ansible automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, and lifecycle operations.
- Develop reusable Ansible roles, collections, playbooks, inventories, and frameworks.
- Build CI/CD integration for infrastructure automation workflows.
- Create Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance models.
- Develop automated compliance validation, security remediation, and configuration drift detection.
- Engineer self-service provisioning and platform automation capabilities.
- Establish automation coding standards, peer review processes, and best practices for infrastructure code.
- Engineer and support IBM Power platforms (Power9, Power10, future generations).
- Design and optimize virtualization using PowerVM, VIOS, and LPAR.
- Lead platform migrations, hardware refreshes, and modernization projects.
- Engineer performance, scalability, and resilience improvements.
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to engineer secure-by-design solutions.
- Develop automated compliance and remediation solutions using Ansible.
- Implement security hardening standards using Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Engineer solutions supporting FFIEC, PCI-DSS, SOX, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and Enterprise Security Standards compliance.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation.
- Develop proactive monitoring, observability, and predictive maintenance capabilities.
- Lead root cause analysis for engineering improvements and preventative controls.
- Drive platform reliability, performance optimization, and technical debt reduction.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship.
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and platform governance.
- Conduct design reviews and provide guidance on infrastructure engineering.
- Collaborate across infrastructure, security, development, and cloud engineering organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years' experience in Systems engineering including systems programmer, scripting, troubleshooting.
- 10+ years of enterprise experience designing, engineering, and supporting IBM AIX environments.
- 10+ years of experience with IBM Power Systems platforms.
- Expert-level knowledge of IBM AIX 7.x, IBM Power Systems (Power9, Power10), PowerVM, LPAR, VIOS, HMC, NIM.
- 7+ years of hands-on Ansible development experience.
- Expert-level proficiency developing Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, modules, inventories, templates, and automation frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience building enterprise-scale Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Ansible.
- Strong software engineering mindset with experience applying source control, code review, testing, versioning, and CI/CD practices to infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating Ansible with ServiceNow, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Ability to design highly reusable and modular automation frameworks.
- Experience building automated compliance and policy enforcement solutions through Ansible.
- Strong understanding of YAML, Jinja2 templating, REST APIs, and automation orchestration concepts.
Skills
- IBM AIX
- IBM Power Systems
- PowerVM
- LPAR
- VIOS
- HMC
- NIM
- Ansible
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- Automation
- CI/CD
- YAML
- Jinja2
- REST APIs
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Programming
- Scripting
- Troubleshooting
- Source Control
- Code Review
- Testing
- Versioning
- ServiceNow
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent
Benefits
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program
About the Company
- First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.