Manager - IBM i Server Hardware & Platform Governance

About the role

The IBM i Server Hardware & Platform Governance Manager at Costco Wholesale is responsible for managing and leading a team of employees. This role involves overseeing team performance and deliverables, leading the specific functional responsibilities of your team, enforcing engineering governance and modernization frameworks, and directing the Server Hardware team in managing the full hardware lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Enforces engineering governance and modernization frameworks
• Manages the full hardware lifecycle—from strategic capacity planning for storage, memory, and throughput to the oversight of Hardware Management Dashboards and high-availability infrastructure
• Ensures a stable, high-performance environment that supports seamless application modernization and robust enterprise operations
• Communicates and models the values and guiding principles of our company culture
• Directs the complete IBM i hardware lifecycle, including capacity planning, storage optimization, and High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) strategies
• Oversee dual-layered observability—utilizing hardware dashboards and software runtime frameworks—to proactively monitor real-time system health, manage resource consumption, resolve incidents rapidly, and maintain strict SLAs
• Enforce enterprise architecture standards, advise domain teams on best practices, and manage the development of cross-domain shared utilities to eliminate code redundancy and promote efficient asset reuse
• Act as the strategic bridge between physical infrastructure and application governance by leading modernization POCs (e.g., APIs, DevOps)

Requirements

Required Platform Governance & Modernization Experience in defining and enforcing enterprise-grade coding standards, database schemas, and architectural guardrails within an IBM i environment

• Transforming monolithic applications into modern architectures (e.g., Modularization, ILE, Service Programs, and API enablement/JSON/REST)
• Strategic Capacity Planning & LPAR Management
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Knowledge of IBM Power Virtualization (PowerVM) and Work Management
• Hardware Observability

Qualifications

Leadership and soft skills - Cross functional collaboration, Vendor & Stakeholder management, Risk Management to ensure zero-impact to production deployments

Skills

Comprehensive Observability & Governance, Architecture & Optimization, Strategic Innovation & Modernization

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase plan

Pay

$137,000 - $200,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Schedule

Full-time management/leadership position (45+ hours per week)

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees

Company Information

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.