Sr. Linux/AIX Systems Engineer

Job Description

Background:
This position is for a Senior Linux/AIX Systems Engineer assignment to, as well as 2024SOW028 CCTI Support project.
The scope of work is day to day management and administration of Linux / VMware servers and IBM AIX servers.

Description
The work involves hands on technical support and systems engineering activities, testing and validating systems, working closely with the Project Management Office and Enterprise IT (EIT) Service Delivery Team from the located in Washington, DC, and Chicago. This project includes infrastructure-related work that will leverage an SDLC appropriate for these types of projects (requirements analysis, design, installation, testing, and configuration of H/W and S/W components).

Span of responsibility covers large, highly complex systems and projects. This role acts in the capacity of a Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) on small- to medium-size technology delivery programs and helps to ensure that recovery time objectives (RTO) are delivered on time, on budget and with quality.

Required Experience/Skills
• 7+ years of IT experience working to support and enhance infrastructure (including DR) capabilities within an organization.
• 5+ years of experience as a RedHat Linux/VMware Administrator in an enterprise environment
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering and technical expertise in the planning, design, and implementation of high availability (HACMP) AIX, PowerVM and VIO systems.
• Manage PowerHA and PowerVM systems and experience in IBM LPM.
• Develop Ansible scripts for automation and monitoring of Linux Systems
• Perform senior-level Linux/VMware System administration including troubleshooting, fault isolation, system tuning, software installation, and maintenance.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x/7.x installation on physical Blade and VMware ESXi 7.x Virtual Environment.
• Install and configure VMware ESX server on Dell and Client server hardware.
• Have a solid understanding of SAN's and the interaction with virtual environments.
• Ability to partition disks, create logical volumes, create file systems, and mount file systems in Linux environments.
• Read, modify, and create shell scripts.
• VMware and ESXi (7.x or higher) configuration and management experience.
• Manage operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes for production servers (AIX and Linux).
• Demonstrated ability to manage infrastructure-related projects including installation of hardware and software solutions (for mainframe, distributed servers, storage, middleware, and networking)
• Knowledge of and experience in managing DR environment/configuration projects and/or other data center operations projects.