AIX Administrator

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Ansible
IBM AIX Administration
IBM AIX
IBM GPFS
IBM PowerHA
Python

Job Details

Location: Richmond, VA & Dallas, TX & NYC

Role:

  • The systems managed here support national financial operations.
  • Stability, uptime, and reliability of this infrastructure are essential for fundamental processes like payroll deposits, interbank transactions, etc.

Day to Day:

Core AIX System Administration:

  • Performing system updates and patches
  • Troubleshooting and incident remediation
  • Working closely with customers to schedule changes and perform configuration tasks

Change Management:

  • Managing changes such as filesystem expansions, resource allocation, or new configuration deployments
  • Handling hardware replacements in coordination with IBM

Incident Handling:

  • Investigating and resolving issues across AIX infrastructure
  • Escalating or collaborating when needed (critical for risk-sensitive environment)

Documentation & Ticketing:

  • Managing incident, request, and change records in ServiceNow
  • Following structured change procedures with audit precision

Must-Have Skills:

  • AIX administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Familiarity with VIO (Virtual I/O Server) and HMC (Hardware Management Console)
  • Clustered Storage: IBM GPFS (now Spectrum Scale) experience with clustered network filesystems
  • High Availability: IBM PowerHA (now Spectrum Protect HA) for managing failover and redundancy
  • Automation/Configuration: Ansible Tower understanding playbook execution (development experience is a plus but not mandatory)
  • Python nice to have

On call support required

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