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