Description
We are have a requirement with a Dublin based customer, this particular customer would be a brand name in Ireland within the industry in which they operate and have a vast presence across Europe.
As part of the ever growing demand on their services and expansion of their core business we are looking to hire a UNIX Administrator for an initial duration of 12 months.
The team you shall be a part of is part of the customers server support team and is tasked with providing 27/7 systems admin and support services for all UNIX Servers and associated infrastructure. The team primarily supports AIX on PSeries Servers on which they run mainly SAP/DB2 applications and some Oracle applications.
Key Responsibilities of the OSG Team are as follows:
- Manage support mailbox
- Monitor and manage application and system backups
- Log and manage hardware/software support calls
- AIX installs and updates to support core business requirements
- Support and maintain PSeries hardware including firmware updates
- Support and maintain Hardware Management Consoles
- Performance monitoring and Capacity Planning
- Application and server refreshes
- Perform and support DR site Switches
- Develop and maintain operational Korn Shell Scripts
- Preventative maintenance tasks to ensure IT systems are operational and secure, and to prevent future incidents
- Incident and problem resolution, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction possible
- Delivery of ad hoc unplanned changes
- Provide and maintain project documentation to allow smooth transition of Projects into Support organisation
- Customer communications
Experience Required:
- Relevant degree with 2-3 years experience
- Relevant AIX System Amin experience
- Thorough understanding of PSeries environment including HMCs, Dynamic Logical Partitioning, Virtual IO, Processor and Memory Pooling
- Relevant experience in implementing backups/restores on AIX using Veritas Netbackup
- Relevant experience in using IBM XIV San and EMC SAN on AIX Servers
- Relevant experience in building DR solutions on a AIX/XIV environment
- Korn Shell Scripting experience
- Perl knowledge advantageous.
- UC4 familiarity advantageous
- Excellent process methodology
- Ability to problem solve and be proactive when faced with a challenge