AIX Administrator

Responsibilities :

AIX Operating System engineering and certification

AIX System Administrator

Strong understanding of P6/P7/P8/P9/P10 PSeries hardware architectures

Work as part of project delivery team and provide end to end AIX server build

Build AIX server requirements according to project specification

Work hand-in-hand with architect and capacity manager on AIX server capacity server provisioning.

Performing system administration activities on AIX systems

Configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting AIX Lpars and physical servers

PowerVM, Power Firmware and HMC engineering and certification

PowerHA and GPFS engineering and certification

Certification and Engineering of associated Systems Management agents/tools/etc.

Consulting and Design activities related to LoB managed IBM POWER systems/solutions

Provide AIX operating systems support and ensure maximum performance and uptime for all AIX servers

Analyze issues related to AIX and supporting software

Coordinate and support deployment of AIX supporting software, and application related software upgrades/patches

Maintain infrastructure software (GPFS, PowerHA, AIX 6.1, 7.1, and later, VIOS, PowerVM)

Responsible for installing and managing IBM AIX systems

Assist with the development of standards, guidelines and policies related to the design and architecture of Unix AIX solutions

Working with customers to troubleshoot incidents and escalate with L2 support if/when needed

Experience in installing of VIO Server/Client, LPAR/DLPAR and installation of AIX through NIM Server

Provide on job training/coaching when required

Requires participation in an on-call rotation

Take problem resolution ownership and facilitate technical bridge during operational disruption in service or service outages

Monitor events, customer support calls in the call tracking system, return calls from customers, enter new incidents or requests into ServiceNow

Experience in File Systems, Processes, Performance tuning and troubleshooting

Manage VIO, Hardware Management Console

Experience in system recovery using mksysb image using NIM server and Disaster Recovery

Experience in PowerVM of l virtualization services like Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA), NPIV configuration, virtual SCSI services to multiple VIO servers/client partitions

knowledge of UNIX Shell Scripting, to include Perl

Additional Responsibilities:

Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience as AIX admin