About the Company:
This regional utility provider delivers essential services to a metropolitan area, focusing on sustainable energy solutions and community-oriented initiatives. With operations spanning nearly a century, they manage an extensive infrastructure system while prioritizing environmental stewardship and innovative technologies
Scope of Work
The UNIX System Administrator will support the administration, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting of AIX/IBM and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems within the organization’s IT infrastructure. This role ensures the reliability, security, and efficiency of UNIX environments, supports system migrations, and maintains comprehensive documentation for all UNIX-related assets and processes.
Key Responsibilities
1. AIX/IBM System Administration
- Perform daily administration, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting of AIX systems, VIOS, HMCs, and Managed Systems.
- Provision and manage AIX virtual server builds using PowerVM technology.
- Administer AIX LPARs configured as part of a PowerHA cluster.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and implement remediation strategies to secure AIX/IBM environments.
- Manage IBM Power lifecycle migrations, including planning, execution, and validation.
- Integrate AIX Logical Partitions (LPARs) with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for accurate asset tracking.
- Support application migrations from AIX/IBM platforms to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86 architectures or cloud-hosted environments.
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administration
- Administer, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
- Identify and remediate vulnerabilities within RHEL environments to ensure compliance with security standards.
3. Documentation and Asset Management
- Maintain up-to-date documentation and technical diagrams related to UNIX infrastructure and processes.
- Ensure all system changes, migrations, and configurations are accurately recorded and aligned with organizational policies.
4. Collaboration and Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including security, application development, and infrastructure, to support system requirements.
- Participate in outage planning, capacity planning, and performance tuning to optimize system availability.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of best practices and standard operating procedures for UNIX system management.
5. Additional Duties
- Perform other related responsibilities and special projects as assigned by management to support IT infrastructure goals.
Mandatory Requirements
- Minimum five (5) years of experience with server infrastructure in an enterprise-level environment.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience with IBM AIX in an enterprise-level environment.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience building, patching, and administering AIX, PowerHA, HMC, VIOS, and Managed Systems.
- Strong troubleshooting experience in AIX-based environments.
- Hands-on experience with IBM PowerVM virtualization (AIX).
- Experience with system build processes and procedures in a virtualized environment.
- Experience with monitoring tools for troubleshooting and preventative maintenance in UNIX-based environments.
- Experience with hardening operating systems to meet information security standards.
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience with shell scripting/programming.
- Experience with IBM BigFix Patch Management.
- Experience with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
- Experience with Ansible automation.
- Experience with physical server hardware break/fix.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills related to AIX, PowerHA, HMC, VIOS, and Managed Systems.
- Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux in an enterprise environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Associate Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply for open positions with our company.