Description

osition Objective: 

 The responsibility of this position is to oversee and assist with major project initiatives, as well as provide support for AIX Unix servers in development, QA/UAT, and production environments.  This position requires in-depth knowledge of AIX 6/7 operating systems.  The position requires superior troubleshooting skills, capacity and performance experience and a thorough understanding of AIX HMC and VIO technologies, as well as experience with Power hardware.

 

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Provide day to day operational support for the AIX environments
  • 24x7 "on-call" support required
  • Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for OS and hardware issues for our AIX servers
  • Monitor system health and remediate identified problems
  • Diagnose and remediate of technical problems/outages
  • Routinely review system resource allocations and application needs to ensure business process are completed within identified SLA's.
  • Frequently monitor and review system capacities

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in AIX
  • Expert in the understanding of the AIX operating systems
  • Full understanding of LPAR creation, HMC management, VIO servers and NIM for AIX
  • Full and in-depth knowledge of UNIX-based network protocols
  • Strong scripting skills
  • Expert level understanding of the philosophies of operating system performance tuning
  • Strong understanding of file systems, concepts and logical volume management
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Solid verbal and written communication skills