Unix Team Leader - AIX & Storage L3 System Specialist

SUMMARY:
Unix Team Lead

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a leading Tech firm is seeking a Unix Team Leader – AIX and Storage L3 System Specialist to join their AIX team in Centurion or Gauteng contract basis – 3 to 12 months

Introduction

Our Client Infrastructure and Operations division is looking for a Unix engineer in the AIX team. The focus of this position will be on System Administration, automation, introduction of dev-ops principles and transforming the environment to Infrastructure as code.

Our Clients Infrastructure and Operations is responsible for all Infrastructure and operations of and it’s operating divisions, spanning multiple data.

Responsibilities

• Hardware and System Monitor.
• OS and Hardware performance management.
• AIX workload design and architecture review & Implementation
• Ensure availability and performance of the IBM infrastructure systems
• Maintain and service components for AIX servers and storage according to best practices and in a cost-effective manner.
• Implementation of Infrastructure changes
• Incident, Problem, Change through the usage of JIRA
• Patch & Firmware Management
• Standby & Daily Health Checks
• Automation & Config management (Ansible, shell, Rundeck, GIT)
• Engage with our Clients Infrastructure and Operations as well as business consumers & Management of compute infrastructure to plan changes and maintenance tasks.
• Capacity planning & workload balancing
• Comprehension of Benchmark standards. (CIS)
• Strong Leadership Skills
• Knowledge transfer and skills development with L1/2 engineering team members.
• Review, design and documenting of AIX processes and procedures
• Enforcing of security processes & Procedures
• Continuous service delivery improvement

Required Skills

• Extensive Knowledge of AIX 7.X
• Power Virtualization (VIO)
• Storage design and implementation
• Backup and Recovery
• Networking (TCP/IP)
• Authentication - PAM/AD Integration
• Scripting – Shell, Pearl & Python
• Unix Security (Understanding and implementation)
• Database and Application knowledge will be a benefit
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas of engagement with business
• Verbal and writing skills, both technical and non-technical.
• knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of an enterprise technology architecture will be beneficial.
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Strong knowledge of Agile and ITIL Principles and implementation
• HMC Installation, Management and support
• Power hardware support Design and Implementation
• Linux knowledge will be a benefit
• Extensive troubleshooting and RCA documentation
• Performance design, optimization and implementation
• IBM Network installation Manager Design, management and securing
• Disaster recovery design, implementation, automation and execution.
• Design & implementation of security processes & Procedures

Required Experience

• 15+ Years IT infrastructure and operating system experience
• 8+ Years Solid AIX experience
• Virtualisation using, KVM, VMware, PowerVM,
• Storage management experience
• 4+ Years Scripting and automation
• Tertiary IT qualification (3 years degree/NQF Level 5) (Preferred)

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