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IBM AIX Lead 
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 
47543513

09.09.2024

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an AIX Administrator L3, he/she will lead the administration, optimization, and support of AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) systems within the organization. This advanced-level position requires a deep understanding of AIX principles, technologies, and best practices, coupled with the ability to lead cross-functional teams in ensuring the stability, performance, and security of AIX environment. You will need to visit the domestic client’s offices / data centres on a daily basis or on an as-needed basis as part of this role.

Responsibilities:

  • AIX System Administration Leadership: Lead the administration and maintenance of AIX systems, overseeing installation, configuration, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting activities.
  • Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and implement optimization strategies to ensure the efficient operation of AIX environments.
  • Security Management: Implement and maintain security measures to protect AIX systems from internal and external threats, ensuring compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements.
  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions for AIX environments, ensuring business continuity and data protection.
  • Patch Management: Develop and implement patch management strategies to keep AIX systems up-to-date with the latest security patches and updates.
  • Backup and Restoration: Establish backup and restoration procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of data on AIX systems in the event of data loss or corruption.
  • Capacity Planning: Conduct capacity planning activities to forecast resource requirements and ensure scalability and performance of AIX environments.
  • Documentation and Training Leadership: Develop comprehensive documentation for AIX systems and processes, providing leadership in training and knowledge transfer to team members and end-users.Needs to have a thorough understanding of, and are able to articulate, IBM’s technical support strategy.
  • Candidates on the L3 Category should have 5 years relevant experience.
  • Candidates should have good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Candidates should be willing to work on 24×7 and on-call support during critical issues.
  • Candidates should have eagerness to learn new technologies and skills.
  • He/She should be hardworking with strong work ethics and discipline.
  • Ready to work on 24/7 shifts to support client requirement.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Min 8+ years of experience with experience in the following areas:
  • AIX installation/Upgradation/Patch Management
  • NIM based installation and administration.
  • Hardware health checkup/Logs Collection
  • System Monitoring/Performance Monitoring/data collection.
  • Start/Stop, reboot OS as and when required.
  • LVM, FileSystem and NFS Management.
  • Storage Attachment and multi-pathing Configuration.
  • User Administration.
  • OS Hardening as per Client/Audit Security policy.
  • Develop and maintain documentation about current environment setup, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
  • Schedule Jobs/cron.
  • System backup and restores
  • BCP activities and Support.
  • PowerHA Installation/Configuration/Start/Stop/Administration
  • LPAR Creation and Administration.
  • VIO installation and configuration
  • Resource Management and DLPAR operations.
  • Trouble shooting any problem data collection.
  • Raise and track Service Requests with IBM/OEM.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Required Education:-
    BE / B. Tech Computer Science, MCA or Equivalent / higher Qualification
  • You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
  • Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
  • Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
  • Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
  • Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications