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Role & responsibilities Job Description for AIX Senior System Administrator (L3) Date 16-Oct-2024 Job Title AIX Senior System Administrator Proposed Grade Band B3/C1 Demand Role Lead Administrator L1 Location Bangalore Requirement Details Division / Vertical FSC-CIS Sub-Division/ Sub Vertical DC & Hybrid Cloud - Midrange Practice Resource Manager Primary Recruiter/Account Philips TM/PM/Reporting Manager) Expected Date of Recruitment 01-Nov-24 Educational Qualifications BE/BSc/MCA Primary & Secondary Skills - Primary skill: AIX - Secondary skills: HPUX / Solaris / Linux Experience Level 8+ years of experience in AIX System Administration and support; 2+ years as a AIX Team Lead would be an added advantage . Job Description Role & Responsibilities The AIX Sr System Administrator is responsible for delivery of AIX (IBM Power Systems) IT Infrastructure elements both on premises and on cloud hosted environments. Migration and implementation expertise of On-premises to PowerVS/Skytap cloud would be a key advantage and differentiator. Responsibilities include : Understand the clients overall IT architecture and AIX environment. Working in Account Delivery, he would lead the design and implementation of migrations be it newer hardware on premise hosting or to the public cloud. Candidate should be capable of solving complex technical problems, communicating technical concepts to clients and peers with mixed levels of technical abilities, and making sound technical and architectural decisions independently. Besides supporting BAU operations, candidate will be responsible and accountable for handling and resolving P1/P2 incidents till closure & RCA thereafter. Provide Technical Support for Business System Architecture Planning & Design Owning and managing system security at AIX OS level including hardening of systems. Sound experience on VIOS and HMC management IBM and other ISV software installation and maintenance Manage and secure network connectivity and communications related to the AIX platform. Establish and adhere to IT industry best practices and standards for client’s Power Systems for AIX. Consult with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess AIX system requirements. Should be capable of leading and supporting a team in carrying out core activities such as system build and implementations, migrations, OS upgrades, DR exercises. The role requires provision of out-of-hours support for the implementation of hardware/software changes and support for other projects requiring AIX infrastructure expertise as well as being part of an on-call rota. Should be ready and available to work in various time zones depending on client needs. Required Candidate Profile (Job Requirements/Descriptions) Skill and Experience (Essential) Engineering Degree with 8+ years of experience in AIX System Administration support in a high demand-based, service-oriented environment (environments with 10+ LPARs) ensuring system availability of 99.9%. Sound hands on experience in working on AIX environments as a System Administrator with experience in LPAR administration, VIOS management, System capacity & performance tuning, OS & other third-party Software installation, upgrade, and maintenance. Experience in designing and architecting Hardware system & OS upgrades. Strong expertise in Logical Volume Manager (LVM), OS, and Patch Management on the AIX platform HACMP/PowerHA design, review, implementation & management (local and metro cluster) Expert in Virtualization technologies(LPAR, APV, WPAR) Experience in supporting and executing MKSYSB, NIM, NMON, AIX Diag Operation Hands on expertise in Partition Mobility, Active Memory Sharing and other functions. Should have knowledge on Storage and LUN creation Experience in Batch job management using tools like Ctrl-M or Autosys. Knowledge of performing ‘Performance Tuning’ of the AIX environment and Log monitoring/maintenance NFS, DNS, Auto mount administration OS hardening expertise and familiarity with third party security products around the AIX platform Should possess the knowledge and ability to do fail-over testing from Production to DR system in a HA software replication environment (such as PowerHA, Oracle RAC). Sound experience in Backup/Recovery using native tools as well as products like EMC Network, IBM Storage Protect, Veeam, etc. Expertise in automation and reduction of manual efforts through Shell scripting/cron jobs, etc. Ability to independently plan and lead an AIX migration & implementation project team is critical. Public cloud (especially Azure/AWS/GCP/IBM) knowledge would be an added advantage. Knowledge of AIX Migration and implementation from On-premises to Skytap on Azure or IBM PowerVS would be a key differentiator. Experience in other Unix OS flavours like Linux and HP-UX/Solaris would be an added advantage. Good and effective written and oral communication Good understanding of ITIL Certification (Preferred) IBM certification on AIX System Administration Good to have – any public cloud certification (Azure/AWS/GCP) Key criteria for evaluation required for Senior/Functional hires List top 4 qualities for evaluation in order of importance Rank Criteria for Evaluation 1 Experience in independently handling end to end OS upgrades or AIX Power System migrations to new on-premises hardware or to public cloud 2 Strong AIX System Administration and troubleshooting skills (with 8+ years of relevant experience) 3 Good client facing and presentation skills; oral and written communication either in face-to-face meetings or over Microsoft Teams 4 Strong planning and process documentation skills Preferred candidate profile
