Job Description
Job Description
Job title: AIX System Administrator
Location: Richmond, VA 23219
Duration: 36 Months/ 03 years
Pay Rate: $56.00-hour role.
Job Description: -
Initial work schedule:
Monday - Friday, then will transition to either Tuesday-Saturday OR Sunday-Thursday
Qualifications:
- 8+ years professional experience in the area of Unix Operating system technologies
- Experience with operating system and clustering component configuration
- Strong experience with automation and orchestration tools, including Ansible, Python, Aria, UNIX scripting, etc., and previous work with Agile methodologies
- Must be able to work both collaboratively and independently and take initiative to identify, track, and resolve issues
- Expert knowledge of AIX LVM, LPAR profile creation, configuration, PowerVM administration, AIX OS installation (via NIM) and configuration, OS user, group creation, administration, HMC administration.
- Strong comfort level with NIM administration and automation, Power Systems firmware upgrades, SSH/SFTP client/server administration.
- Solid foundation with network concepts and AIX, VIOS network administration (Ethernet, VLANs, TCP/IP, 802.1q, vSwitches, SEAs), NFS client/server administration, SUDO configuration, LDAP client administration.
- In addition to experience working with Unix technologies, the following skills will be required.
- Networking and storage technologies used by the FRS
- Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban practices
- Familiarity with AIX performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities:
- Regular System Administrator activities
- Automate software lifecycle management for Operating system components, support software, and configuration management
- Experience in identifying toil in Operating Systems
- Applies analytics on past data like incidents and patterns for predicting issues and takes proactive actions