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AIX Administrator
Location: Spring, TX 77389 (Onsite)
Contract: 6-12 months
Client: HCL America
Visa: AND GCEAD
Required Skills
AIX Administrator
Location: Spring, TX 77389 (Onsite)
Contract: 6-12 months
Client: HCL America
Visa: AND GCEAD
Required Skills
- Minimum of 10 years of experience and a mix of technical and process skills.
- Strong knowledge of AIX Lpar/HMC and upgrade.
- Strong knowledge of hardware.
- Strong knowledge in AIX administration, performance tuning and support experience.
- Strong knowledge with configuring OS, Kickstart servers, Identity Management
- Strong knowledge of virtualization products
- Perform OS upgrades and patch installations
- Strong skills of user and performance management.
- Strong Shell scripting (bash/ksh, PERL, Python)
- Strong knowledge of DR and recovery of OS.
- Strong troubleshooting skills related to server boot, HMC, VIO and cluster issues.
- Strong networking troubleshooting ability
- Strong understanding of Logical volume manager.
- Strong knowledge of migration.
- Understanding of Yum and RPM and how to create application repositories and synchronization of application repos
- Knowledge / use of security and password management software
- Very strong AIX Administration and troubleshooting skills including: Job control, soft and hard links, distinctions between the kernel and the shell, shell scripting
- Ability to provision bare metal installs, configure, operate and maintain systems
- Deep Knowledge of Networking fundamentals, Storage technologies, and Cluster fundamentals.
- Good Knowledge of SAN and NAS.
- Working with an enterprise wide, large scale matrix environment.
- Ability to plan and prioritize work and meet project deadlines.
- Must be self-motivated and work well with other groups
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required.