AIX Engineer

General Accountabilities

• Architecture and implementation of AIX management and monitoring platforms.

• Experience with PowerVC / PowerVM 

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including application and network level troubleshooting ability.

• Practical experience as a UNIX or AIX systems engineer in a complex multi-platform, multi-protocol environment. 

• Broad understanding of all UNIX/AIX, LAN, WAN, SAN, and backup operations. 

• Knowledge of standard system startup/shutdown mechanics, LDAP, installation of standard tools (Apache, gnu, AIX OS related) and other UNIX utilities.

• Linux skills highly desired.

• Develop operational processes and documentation for day-to-day AIX tasks.

• Manage, communicate, and implement infrastructure changes, upgrades and migrations on AIX servers, Linux skills highly desired.

• Knowledge and use of UNIX/AIX scripting with python. 

• Strong understanding of various protocols and services including NFS, DHCP, DNS, IP, TCP, UDP, TFTP, NTP. 

• Perform typical system administration tasks, including but not limited to configuring, installation, maintaining, administering, and troubleshooting

• Configure, implement, and maintain backups, backup schedules and backup logs. 

• Experience implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.

• Experience working on a matrix team consisting of a variety of Infrastructure Engineering groups, as well as Development groups and Client Relationship groups.

• Network storage experience with products such as EMC, NetApp, iSCSI, SAN, etc. 

• High levels of Confidence and experience in using the typical AIX toolbox of open-source software and management tools. 
  
  

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.

• ITSM certification preferred, ITSM foundation training required.

Experience:

• 5+ years supporting AIX operating systems.

• Experience with PowerVC and Openstack desired.

• Strong scripting skills to automate tasks.

• Multi-tenant experience desired.

• IBM Cloud native or through Google highly desired.

• Linux support, either stand alone or Linux on Power.

• Strong Platform and workload migration experience strong desired.

• Experience working for a managed and/or cloud service provider preferred.

• Public Cloud Industry technical certifications – highly desired.

Professional Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication in English is required.

• Excellent meeting facilitation skills, including teleconference and web conference.

• Excellent skills in math to calculate currency exchanges and summary data.

• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills, proven ability to manage by influence.

• Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office product suite.

• Participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule responding to critical issues.