AIX Administrator

Job Description:

• An AIX admin is responsible for managing and maintaining AIX systems
• An AIX administrator is responsible for the installation configuration maintenance and troubleshooting of systems running AIX OS
• Ensuring the high availability of AIX operating system

Key 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

Preferred Skills:

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