Senior Engineer - AIX Administration

The primary objective of a Senior Engineer specializing in AIX and Linux, along with Storage and Cloud System Administration for the client to ensure the secure, efficient, and reliable operation of their IT infrastructure. This role is crucial for supporting the Client Infrastructure services, ensuring seamless operation, data integrity, and optimal performance of systems critical to their functions.

Maintain infrastructure software (GPFS, PowerHA, AIX 7.1, and later, VIOS, PowerVM).

Responsible for installing and managing IBM AIX systems.

AIX and Linux Patching.

Support day to day L3 calls on AIX/ Servers / VIO Servers issue.

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 and Disaster Recovery
• Experience in PowerVM of virtualization services like Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA), NPIV configuration, virtual SCSI services to multiple VIO servers/client partitions
• Strong Redhat Linux System administration experience
• Strong understanding of P9 pSeries hardware architectures
• Maintain and upgrade the UNIX system software on all UNIX based midrange systems to ensure operating system integrity and a high degree of system availability
• Strong understanding and awareness of AIX and Redhat Linux system security
• Establish LPAR cloning standard operating procedures and create LPAR profiles
• Install, configure and establish the plan to maintain software on the LPARs that is required by the data center
• Develop and present mitigation strategy recommendations to the client to address security findings
• Identify problem resolution and coordinate implementation of solution with client management and other impacted technical support teams
• Design, configure, and maintain LPARs required to support various non- production and production components
• Extensive Knowledge in supporting SAN environments
• Storage Area Network (SAN) configuration and administration.
• Understanding of SAN architecture and configuration best practices. LUN masking, fiber specs, switch specifications, SAN security/Port Zoning, core-to-end, n-tier, etc)
• Experience on IBM storage, SVC, HP 3PAR and SAN Switch administration and configuration.
• Expertise on IBM Storage technologies SVC, FS7200, FS900, V7000.

Expertise on SAN Products Brocade Switches

• Extensive knowledge and experience with various storage replication software, SAN switches, and storage management software/hardware.
• Experience in Azure cloud environment to Deploy, manage, and monitor virtual machines (VMs), networks, and storage solutions within Azure.
• Ensure optimal allocation of resources to meet performance requirements and cost efficiency.
• Regularly apply patches and updates to Azure services and infrastructure.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain security policies and procedures, including network security, access controls, and data protection

Hands-on experience in deploying, configuring, and managing Trend Micro security solutions, such as

• Trend Micro Apex One, Deep Security, or Workload Security (DS Agent)
• Policy configuration, agent deployment, and update management
• Log analysis, threat detection, and remediation of malware or vulnerabilities

Qualification

Required Knowledge and experience

Experience: 12 Years in Unix System administration

Educational Qualification

A Bachelors in Engineering in Computer Science or Information Systems, or an equivalent combination of education and/or professional experience.

Primarily Skills and Experiences

• Manage and administrate all Linux and Unix infrastructure services.
• Maintain updated patch management process and assure all infrastructure component are patched.
• Monitor system logs and activity on all Linux and Unix environment.
• Perform regular firmware assessment and upgrade.
• Coordinate with 3rd party suppliers/vendors the replacement of defective hardware on clients and servers as necessary.
• Update software and hardware inventory and documents.
• Provide scripts to automate regular tasks and jobs.

Certifications

University Degree in Computer Science or a related subject Must Have Must Have N/A

Red Hat Certified Engineer(RHCE) Must Have Must Have

• Azure Administrator Associate Must Have Good to have
• ITIL Foundation V3 or V4 Must have Must Have
• Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect Good to have Good to have
• IBM Certified Specialist pSeries Administration and Support for AIX Must have Must Have
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes Good to have Good to have
• Microsoft Azure Architect Expert Good to have Good to have

Requirements

• Hands on experience on administrating RHEL and Ubuntu.
• Hands on experience on RedHat Satellite and Ansible.
• Hands on experience on administrating AIX.
• Hands on experience on administrating clustering technologies including Redhat cluster,Redhat Satellite and IBM powerHA.
• Strong background on Blade HW technologies.
• Strong background on IBM Power Systems.
• Hands on experience on VMware Vsphere and its operations.
• Hands on experience on SAN technologies .
• Hands on experience on Storage and SAN administration.
• Azure Cloud administration.
• Ability to work varying hours and shifts.