AIX Infrastructure Specialist

A COLOURFUL GROUP OF PEOPLE PASSIONATE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY & THE WONDERS OF INFORMATION

This is us. A fast-moving team, senior enough to assure effectiveness, but young enough to be flexible and transparent, we started out in 2000 as a privately-owned-and-managed business.

We’re a company with a soul, driven by our values and dedicated to fulfilling our mission to offer world class services, by continuous learning. Our Paladins (just employees in some companies) are empowered to work hard, move up and stand proud.

With active investment in our people's professional development and with the creative-InCrys-touch, we support our clients throughout the project's life cycle, providing end-to-end technology solutions for mission critical systems, products and services.

• Experience with AIX 4.3 – AIX 7.1
• Experience with Power VM
• Experience with Linux SuSE, RedHat Administration, enterprise environment
• HMC, VIO, NIM, LPAR, Live partition Mobility Skill
• Experience with Backup software and strategies
• Familiarity with RAID disk technologies & SAN infrastructure
• Shell scripting: korn, bash, Perl
• 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 the workflow is changing
• Fluent English (spoken and written)
• Communicative competence (pro-active)
• Team player
• A very positive attitude towards life
• Highly motivated

Nice to have:

• ITIL Certified (foundation or/and practitioner) or 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 a 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)
• Knowledge and understanding of network applications, web servers, email
servers, firewalls, databases, file shares, and print servers

Working hours:

• 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

• Event, Incident, Problem Management (analyze alerts and logs), Root Cause Analysis
• Install and support the Power 5 to Power 9 servers, Power VM, firmware upgrades
• Install and support the backend storage, storage virtualization, SAN fabric
• Install and support the server operating system, system management software and operating system utilities including upgrades
• 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 data center 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

Benefits:

• Private medical insurance - for the employee; can be extended for other family member
• Work from home - according to InCrys internal policy
• Learning&Development - customized personal and professional development programs, access to e-learning platforms
• Online platforms for benefits packages
• Teambulidings
• Wordclass and AFI card discount