Senior Unix Specialist

Yoursoft Alternative is a fast growing and dynamic company that activates in the IT field from 2009.
Join our team of IT professionals by applying to the position that we have open.
You can also apply by sending your resume to the following email address: office@yoursoftalternative.com

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 skills:
•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

Working Time:

Monday to Friday 09:00 to 19:00 (covering customer business hours, 2 shifts, 1 hour difference)
Availability for on call support outside business hours