Linux/AIX Admin

Qualification & Experience

• B. Tech / BE
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Proven ability to plan and execute workload in a pressurized & dynamic environment.
• ITIL Certified or a strong working knowledge of ITIL Incident, Problem and Change Management disciplines.

Technical skills

• Strong Knowledge in OS administration processes and concepts.
• Ability to direct and guide team to resolve crisis situations within prescribed SLAs

Analytical skills

• Good analytical, trouble-shooting skills in the area of technical fault isolation and rectification.

Process skills

• Ability to resolve service requests. Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow processes.
• ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Providing out of hours cover as agreed with the Team Leader
• Ensuring consistency across staging/production and Disaster recovery systems as defined in SLA for each setup.
• Escalating hardware and system-level problems to AMC Vendors.
• Quarterly patching and firmware activity on IBM VIO and Aix Lpar.
• Configure, Control and Monitor all IBM servers through HMC
• Attending Hardware failures. Disks, Memory, Power supply, etc.
• Performing filesystem management like Mirroring, striping through LVM.
• Attending Software Issues. OS level problems, SSH problems.
• Providing CPU, Memory and core utilization of Aix LPAR on daily basis.
• Performing log movement as per bank policy and managing log movement inventory
• Working on the requests of development and support team on staging and UAT setup
• Hardening of servers as per bank policy
• User administration of all servers
• Monitoring operating system utilization patterns and preparing reports.
• Should perform DNS or host entry and as per the customer request.
• Monitoring servers for hardware errors like hard disk, RAM, CPU failures/warnings, notifying appropriate service providers, and working on the same until closure.
• Monitoring DC and DR SRM (Site Recovery Manager) sync status
• Interface proactively with other Infrastructure support teams such as Database, Network, Storage, Monitoring etc.
• Document issues and associated resolutions to problems
• Prepare documentation and presentation of progress reports to customers