AIX Specialist

Required:
• Experience of working in an environment of IBM Power machines running AIX 7.x, HMC and VIOS.
• Experience providing support in medium to large scale infrastructure environments (change management processes, etc.)
• Experience using ticketing systems.
• Ability to work well with the team and on various projects (shared team environment)
• Willingness to learn new things & technologies (automation tools, OS related, storage related)
• Flexible if workflow is changing
• Fluent English (spoken and written)
• Communicative competence (pro-active)
Nice to have:
• ITIL Certified
• Training skills in order to mentor junior team members
• Ability to conceptualize problems
• Ability to work under pressure and remain decisive
• Experience with system monitoring tools and analyzing results
• Bachelor degree, with a technical major such as Engineering or Computer Science

Responsibilities:
• Creating and configuring new AIX LPARs, migrating to newer OS versions ,performing latest updates and upgrades, spotting and investigating issues
• Preparing new systems to be introduced in the production network in accordance with the latest compliance rules
• Performing security health checks and compliance reports for all existing machines
• Keeping HMCs and VIO servers up to date, implementing various configuration changes
• Using XCAT for group maintenance tasks
• Creating and maintaining bash/ksh/perl/awk scripts to automate daily tasks
• Usage of monitoring tools - Nagios, RRD
• Creating and maintaining operational documentation