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From: aseddeek on 31 Jul 2010 05:44
Please send resume to molly (at) fremontconsulting.com

Sr.AIX ADMIN

Job Description:
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is a great calling. Knowing that your company has channeled over $100 million
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uplifting. Join the hardest working, not-for-profit health plan in California
and be part of the solution.

The Senior AIX UNIX Engineer will report to the Manager of the Infrastructure
Build Team. The Engineer will provide engineering, implementation and management
of systems expertise within the UNIX IBM AIX environment that host applications
and services used by our clients and staff. At a Senior level, this person is
self-managing and has a deep knowledge of the UNIX AIX systems and
Infrastructure and how it relates to the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be
an AI Windows or UNIX engineer who is either desiring or already has had
significant experience supporting systems that host production business
applications. This person should understand how to AIX systems that scale are
designed to meet a growing Enterprise adoption.

Responsibilities:
Perform standard AIX / UNIX Systems administration tasks such as:
system building: From cd/dvd or tape (mksysb) or NIM. Must have expertise to
setup a NIM server.
Install and configure VIO servers
Configure Integrated Virtual Ethernet (IVE) and Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA)
Configure virtual devices, such as MSPP, Virtual Ethernet (IVE/SEA), Shared
Ethernet, and Virtual SCSI Disks; also configuring MPIO
Configure MPIO on VIO servers
Understand micro-partitioning and shared processor LPARs
Perform system patching, upgrading and migration via alternate disk methods
System troubleshooting for hardware and software to include networking using
commands such as traceroutes and tcpdumps
Requires HMC knowledge i.e. setup and configure LPAR's for use in dynamic
environment, be able to move / reallocate resources
Confident with firmware and software upgrading including Volume group creation
and management, Logical volume creation and management, Userid creation and
removal, Able to use TSM or Netback backup software for backup and recovery of
system and data files
Security management such as the use of sudo and sudoers file to restrict/control
superuser priviledges, follow best practices such as: (umask, user and group
permissions, .profile, hosts.allow, hosts.deny, use of ssh, no telnet) basic
korn shell scripting and debugging
Implement releases/enhancements/upgrades or new applications as documented by
the release or project team (hence the requirement for Windows/UNIX skills)
Recommend monitoring solutions for production applications.
Interacts with peers UNIX Infrastructure Systems Engineers on all technical
aspects of the UNIX environment often providing technical direction.
Interacts with project managers, and the architects and operational staff to
ensure the operations environment is supportable by the UNIX AIX Operations
Support team.
Research and identify application issues, and execute documented processes for
quick restoration of service.
Review and evaluate and develop documents (e.g., ORD, SLA, run book, etc.).
Produce technical documentation, technical drawings, and other documentation as
required.
Thorough knowledge of the application from an operations perspective (no coding
required) resulting in:
Accurate evaluation of an application incident, and identification of a quick
resolution/workaround to restore business functionality.
Accurate evaluation of changes to understand impact to the business application
and other applications that may be impacted.
Identification of what point during an incident troubleshooting/resolution to
escalate to level three support.
Act as an operational SME for components (WAS, FileNet, Kofax, RightFax, Oracle,
MS SQL Server, etc.).
Act as an operational application SME to identify the failing or troubled
component during an incident (i.e., database, hardware, application, queues,
batch, network, etc,).
Provide third level support for incident and problem management. Provide SME
consulting services.

5-8 years of similar work experience
Sr Systems Management on UNIX/Window(SOLARIS). AIX version 6.1(5.3 and 6.1) with
VIO experience and LINUX is desireds.required.
5+ years of AIX system administration as a Senior level
Install and configure LPARs, VIO servers, knowledge of IVE/SEA, configuring
virtual disks
Understanding of MPIO, MSPP, micro-partitioning, active memory sharing, and
shared processor LPARs
Knowledge of: vmstat, iostat, sar, topas, trace, curt, mpstat, lparstat, smtctl
Install and configure NIM server
Disaster Recovery experience necessary
VCS configuration/management necessary
Previous experience in a ticketing incident based environment
Experience in setting up systems to do Capacity Planning is essential
Operational knowledge of one or more of these products is required: Websphere,
FileNet, Kofax, Rightfax, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
Must be able to successfully interact with the business, vendor partners,
release management, applications development, engineering teams, and others in a
professional and personable manner.
IS KNOWLEDGE SKILLS: UNIX AIX server/storage hardware and Operating Systems,
working knowledge of supporting tools.
Knowledge of Solaris is a plus
Desirable but not required:
Experience with volume management: Symantec Volume Manager and Solaris Disk
Suite
Experience with VCS (aka Symantec Cluster Server)
Experience in patching/upgrading
Please send resume to molly (at) fremontconsulting.com



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