What are the responsibilities and job description for the UNIX/Linux Migration Consultant position at Ket Software?
Job Title: UNIX/Linux Migration Consultant
Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Focus Area: Migration of Solaris and AIX workloads to AIX 7.3, RHEL 9, and container platforms
- (OpenShift 4.12 )
- Migrate all Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 Global and Non-Global Zones (both branded and native) to target platforms including AIX 7.2/7.3 LPARs, RHEL 7/8/9 systems, and containerized environments.
- The effort includes full hosting of the operating system environment, encompassing all filesystems, applications, startup configurations, service definitions, cron jobs,user accounts, and system-level integrations. Special consideration must be given to the technical complexity of transitioning from SPARC hardware and Solaris services to IBM Power10-based AIX platforms or container-native platforms. The consultant must handle translation of OS-level constructs and ensure seamless continuation of legacy workloads, while also accommodating modern security and performance standards.
- Note: The most critical application, POS, is being migrated from Solaris 11 to AIX 7.3. This POS system currently operates in a clustered environment using Veritas SFRAC and will be platformed to an Oracle ASM-based 8-node AIX 7.3 cluster. This transition involves significant engineering effort due to the complexity of Veritas CFS and GAB/LLT clustering mechanisms, Oracle database storage layout transformation, kernel tuning, and the requirement to establish Oracle RAC connectivity, ASM disk groups, CRS startup dependencies, and HA agent configurations in the new AIX environment. Data integrity, uptime sensitivity, and strict RPO/RTO requirements make this a highly demanding component of migration.