Hiring for AIX Admin in Dallas,TX

[anushtha prasad]

Role                       :               AIX Admin

Location               :               Dallas, Texas

Interview            :                Phone/Skype (preference is given to local candidates that can interview in-person)

Duration              :               6+ Months

No OPT

Description of initiatives, tasks, and responsibilities, Applications, projects

• Administers a complex site alone or assists in the administration of a larger site
• Initiates some new responsibilities and helps to plan for the future of the site/network

• Trains novice system administrators or operators
• Evaluates and/or recommends product usage; has influence on purchasing process
• Automated repetitive task utilizing appropriate tools

Minimum requirements 

Three to five years of system administration experience

• Experience configuring PowerVM LPARs
• Experience managing Power systems utilizing HMCs
• Experience installing OS and firmware updates
• Experience managing a NIM environment
• Working knowledge of redundant VIOS setups
• Working knowledge of Fiber Channel storage networking utilizing NPIV
• Working knowledge of the setup and administration of: Active Memory Expansion, Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Deduplication
• Experience supporting Power 7/Power 8
• Experience supporting AIX 5/6/7 and WPars
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to write purchase justifications, train users in complex topics, make presentations to an internal audience, and interact positively with upper management
• Independent problem-solving, self-direction
• Comfort with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, managing processes and services, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printer systems, and fundamentals of security
• Familiarity with the principles and practice of system configuration management using modern declarative tools; ability to model and reduce complex system requirements as configuration declarations
• A solid understanding of the operating systems; understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, and filesystem concepts
• Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; ability to configure file sharing (NFS/SAMBA); ability to query DNS records; understanding of basic routing concepts
• Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (e.g., Perl, Python, Bourne Shell)
• Works well alone or on a team
• Experience with network storage solutions (SAN, NAS)

Desirable Background and Skills

• Experience setting up and administering WPARs
• Experience managing AIX systems running Oracle Databases
• A degree in computer science or a related field
• Significant programming background in any applicable language
• Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C, Perl, or Java programs
• Experience configuring network file systems (e.g., NFS, RFS, AFS, CIFS, SAMBA)
• Experience configuring automounters
• Experience configuring LDAP
• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols; ability to debug (tcpdump, etherpeek, netstat, lsof)
• Experience installing/configuring a Web server
• Experience maintaining compliance with applicable laws or regulations (SOX, HIPAA, PCA, FISMA)

 

 

 

 

 

Regards ,

Anushtha |  KPG99,INC

3240 E State, St Ext |  Hamilton, NJ 08619
732-515-3900 II anus...@kpgtech.com