AIX System Administrator

AIX Administrator

Aix Server, Pseries Server, Virtualization, LVM, LPAR Minimum 6 to 8 years of experience as AIX admin 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