Linux/AIX Systems Engineer

3 weeks ago

Ashburn, United States nTech Workforce Full time

Terms of Employment

  • Contract-to-Hire, 12 months
  • This is 100% Remote Opportunity - Candidates must be local to the Ashburn, VA area if any issues arise with the AIX or Linux servers.
  • 24/7 support is required - on call rotation every 3 weeks, for 1 week (this will not exceed 40 hours)


Overview

Our client is in search of a Senior Linux/AIX Systems Engineer to join their AIX team. This role involves day-to-day management and administration of Linux / VMware servers and IBM AIX servers. The work involves hands on technical support and systems engineering activities, testing and validating systems, working closely with the Project Management Office and Enterprise IT (EIT) Service Delivery Team located in Washington, DC, and Chicago. This project includes infrastructure-related work that will leverage an SDLC appropriate for these types of projects (requirements analysis, design, installation, testing, and configuration of H/W and S/W components).


The span of responsibility covers large, highly complex systems and projects. This role acts in the capacity of a Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) on small- to medium-size technology delivery programs and helps to ensure that recovery time objectives (RTO) are delivered on time, on budget and with quality.


Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the installation and maintenance of the operating system and application server configurations on the AIX and Linux servers, including virtualization management.
  • Assists Database Administrators with AIX/Linux operating system configurations related to database subsystems.
  • Utilizes strong troubleshooting capabilities to diagnose and resolve problems.
  • Develop Ansible scripts for automation and monitoring of Linux Systems.
  • Monitors and manages storage, network, and security in the assigned environment in conjunction with vendor recommendations and customer requirements.
  • Ensures proper procedures are followed to introduce changes and fixes into the operating environment in order to ensure the lowest possible error rate.
  • Proactively monitors software maintenance levels compared to the vendor published software stack to ensure optimization and corrective fixes are applied.
  • Operational support in the planning, design, replication, and synchronization of secure, high-availability systems and applications.
  • Develops, updates, and maintains operations manuals, inventories, and written procedures relative to installing, maintaining, and using Operating Systems and subsystems software.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and under pressure.
  • Ability to provide structure in a rapidly changing environment.
  • High motivation, flexible and a positive attitude


Required Skills & Experience

  • 7+ years of IT experience working to support and enhance infrastructure (including DR) capabilities within an organization.
  • Excellent knowledge of MS Office tool set – MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Team and MS Outlook.
  • 5+ years of experience as a RedHat Linux/VMware Administrator in an enterprise environment.
  • 5+ years of experience in systems engineering and technical expertise in the planning, design, and implementation of high availability (HACMP) AIX, PowerVM and VIO systems.
  • Previous management of PowerHA and PowerVM systems and experience in IBM LPM.
  • VMware and ESXi (7.x or higher) configuration and management experience.
  • Experience performing senior-level Linux/VMware System administration including troubleshooting, fault isolation, system tuning, software installation, and maintenance.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x/7.x installation on physical Blade and VMware ESXi 7.x Virtual Environment.
  • Install and configure VMware ESX server on Dell and HP server hardware.
  • Ansible scripting on Linux.
  • Have a solid understanding of SAN's and the interaction with virtual environments.
  • Ability to partition disks, create logical volumes, create file systems, and mount file systems in Linux environments.
  • Ability to read, modify, and create shell scripts.
  • Previously managed operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes for production servers (AIX and Linux).
  • Demonstrated ability to manage infrastructure-related projects including installation of hardware and software solutions (for mainframe, distributed servers, storage, middleware, and networking).
  • Knowledge of and experience in managing DR environment/configuration projects and/or other data center operations projects.


Preferred Skills & Experience

  • Healthcare industry experience.
  • Good understanding of data warehouses running in AIX/ DB2 environments with Cognos as the BI reporting tool.
  • Good understanding of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms.
  • Good understanding of IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM).
  • IBM Spectrum scale experience (GPFS).
  • Experience in developing plans for and executing on major environment implementations that include detailed steps and activities with identified ownership and execution timing.
  • Understanding of or experience with Service Level Measurements with contractual obligations and their application to infrastructure projects.

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