Senior AIX Systems Engineer
Position 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 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. Position requires experience with Red Hat Linux in VMware and AWS environments.
Specific Responsibilities:
Provide day to day operational support for the Linux and AIX environments including OS upgrades and hardware installation
24x7 "On-call " support required
Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for OS and hardware issues for our AIX and Linux 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 completing within identified SLA's.
Frequently monitor and review system capacities.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in AIX and Linux.
Expert in the understanding of the AIX and Red Hat operating systems.
Full understanding of LPAR creation, HMC management, VIO servers and NIM for AIX
Understanding of managing Linux servers in VMware and AWS
Understanding of patching Linux and AIX servers
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 files systems, concepts, and logical volume management.
Strong troubleshooting skills.