Job D5969 Description Click to apply: Please attach resume to mail
SOFT's client located in Dallas, Richmond, Charlotte ( Hybrid ) is looking for a AIX System Administrator for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:  
AIX System Administrator Position  
  
• 8+ years professional experience in the area of Unix Operating system technologies  
• Experience with operating system and clustering component configuration  
• Strong experience with automation and orchestration tools, including Ansible, Python, Aria, UNIX scripting, etc., and previous work with Agile methodologies  
• Must be able to work both collaboratively and independently and take initiative to identify, track, and resolve issues  
• Expert knowledge of AIX LVM, LPAR profile creation, configuration, PowerVM administration, AIX OS installation (via NIM) and configuration, OS user, group creation, administration, HMC administration.  
• Strong comfort level with NIM administration and automation, Power Systems firmware upgrades, SSH/SFTP client/server administration.  
• Solid foundation with network concepts and AIX, VIOS network administration (Ethernet, VLANs, TCP/IP, 802.1q, vSwitches, SEAs), NFS client/server administration, SUDO configuration, LDAP client administration.  
• In addition to experience working with Unix technologies, the following skills will be required.  
o Networking and storage technologies used by the client  
o Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban practices  
• Familiarity with AIX performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting.  

Responsibilities:  
• Regular System Administrator activities  
• Automate software lifecycle management for Operating system components, support software, and configuration management  
• Experience in identifying toil in Operating Systems  
• Applies analytics on past data like incidents and patterns for predicting issues and takes proactive actions  
• Initial work schedule: Monday – Friday, then will transition to either Tuesday-Saturday OR Sunday-Thursday