Senior Unix Specialist

Soft skills
• Ability to structure, draft and review technical documentation
• Ability to work under pressure and remain decisive
• Should be able to mentor junior member of the team
• Should act as a role model
• Willingness to learn new things
• Extremely flexible if workflow is changing
• Fluent English (spoken and written)
• Communicative competence (pro-active)
• Team player
• A very positive attitude towards life
• Highly motivated

Technical Skills
• Experience with AIX 4.3 – AIX 7.1
• HMC, VIO, NIM, LPAR, Live partition Mobility Skill
• Experience with Backup software and strategies
• Familiarity with RAID disk technologies & SAN infrastructure
Nice to have
•ITIL Certified (foundation or/and practitioner) or a strong working knowledge of ITIL Incident, Problem and Change Management Process
• Knowledge of advanced shell scripting – KS, Perl
• Experience with Linux on Power
• Experience with AIX with background in and understanding of:
- Designing and setting up server architectures in support of complex enterprise-wide applications including knowledge of redundancy, recovery, load balancing, and other related topics.
- Appropriately configuring and optimizing technologies and applications that utilize the platform
- File system concepts ( inode, paging, swapping, clustering, logical partitions, etc)
- Basic shell scripting - KS, Perl
• Knowledge and understanding of network applications, web servers, email servers, firewalls, databases, file shares and print servers

• Event, Incident, Problem Management (analyze alerts and logs), Root Cause Analysis
• Performance and availability analysis
• Promote and maintain server patch management practices
• Perform security updates
• Ensure compliance with security guidelines
• Liaison with Customer Security Officer
• 3rd party vendor coordination and escalation
• Maintenance of datacenter infrastructure
• Provision of new LPARs, VIOs
• Troubleshoot performance issues, troubleshoot OS configuration and hardware failures and apply fixes
• Create and implement change requests for incidents/problems as needed
• Trend analysis of issues and corrective actions
• Access management in Linux environment
• Backup and Recovery procedures
• Initiate, assess, test, verify, document and quality assure system updates
• Create and update technical documentation