AIX Administrator

Job Description:
Responsibilities Include:

• Supports and maintains the AIX environment
• Escalates complex issues; resolves moderately complex issues; follows established escalation procedures
• Tests, schedules, and implements software, hardware, configuration, and design changes to IT systems
• Identifies and responds to service incidents, investigates and resolves technical problems, and performs root cause analysis
• Monitors and analyzes performance and availability of IT systems
• Conducts preventive maintenance and trend analysis to proactively identify and correct reoccurring issues and problematic trends
• Creates and maintains technical and support documentation
• May be responsible for creating, modifying, or deleting jobs or migration schedules
• May be responsible for planning and implementing backup and recovery/restore procedures; create, update and remove backups; configure and manage backup system
• Assists with task automation and process improvements, as directed
• Maintains established service level agreements to meet customer expectations and quality standards. Protects our customers, employees and brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions and daily job responsibilities; follows security policies and procedures
• Makes concise and timely updates to assigned incident tickets and change tasks

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of UNIX (AIX) systems experience in a large, 24x7 high availability environment including system experience, including administration, installation, upgrading, migration, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Extensive Experience with AIX Operating System - experience with reading scripts such as Korn shell, Python, or Perl; experience with writing same scripts is a plus
• Preferred Skills:
• Linux experience is a plus
• Knowledge of Apache, WebLogic, Oracle, and EMC storage products is a plus
• Experience applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes on AIX systems
• Uphold the standards, processes, and procedures for the department
• Experience establishing, fostering, and maintaining relationships within the department
• Experience collaborating with customers, business partners, and engineering teams to develop and implement appropriate IT solutions.
• Ability to act as a liaison for intradepartmental communication; coordinate maintenance efforts, project participation, systems changes, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Experience developing and preparing detailed statistical reports; collecting, reviewing, and analyzing data, and make recommendations based on findings.
• Experience working with an ITSM tool such as ServiceNow
• Experience identifying areas for improvement with a view to maintaining and enhancing the reliability, stability and integrity of the AIX environment
• Experience with DNS, NTP, SSH, SNMP
• Experience with ITIL
• Effectively interact and respond to questions from engineers, developers and business partners regardless of their technical level of knowledge
• Attention to detail and the motivation to get things done right the first time
• Ability to apply problem-solving techniques to situations to provide fast and effective solutions
• Ability to prioritize workload effectively and work independently as well as part of a team