AIX Consultant

Responsibilities :-

• Adhering to SLAs
• ITIL Processes awareness and adhering to the same ones
• Mentoring / Training Team Members
• Handling tickets / requests
• Perform root cause analysis
• Troubleshooting technical issues
• Defining processes and ensuring that the processes are adhered to
• Oversees and is responsible for successful completion of Installation, configuration and migration
• Ensure maximum uptime according to the SLA
• Understanding of Multi-geo support environment
• Responsible for building / maintaining a test environment
• Responsible for strategizing a backup plan and test plan for failure scenario
• Improves and maintains customer and employee satisfaction
• Suggests new technologies and design changes
• Monitoring and maintaining SLA requirements by the team members
• Planning Backup/Restoration Strategy for 24x7 operation support
• Suggesting patches/upgrades to maintain security level
• Testing / Auditing/processes as required from time to time
• Identify Skill gaps and plan for training / knowledge updating
• Assist / Plan / Procedure in Data centre consolidation efforts
• Perform H/W & performance tuning and maintenance
• Day-to-Day reporting tasks
• Vendor co-ordination & followup

• Installing, configuring and maintaining IBM AIX on P series servers
• Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of HA environment using HACMP or Veritas Cluster.
• Configuration and administration of Logical volume manager / Veritas Voume Manager.
• Patch and Package administration
• Printer Administration
• Writing shell scripts to acomplish day to day system administration task
• Configuring and supporting Domains, LPARs, DLPARs
• Administer & configure various FS like JFS, VxFS, Pseudo FS
• Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue
• Capacity planning and fine tune system for optimal performance
• Understanding of SAN and NAS storage.
• Administration of NIS or LDAP environment
• Configuring Unix Security baseline
• Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue
• Performance Management & fine tuning
• Experience in System Fault Tolerance Design, Business continuity and Disaster recovery planning
• Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of VIO serves.

• Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written)
• Good documentation skills
• Good working knowledge of MS OFFICE (Including MS Project and Visio)
• Should have a great customer handling skills
• Able to handle unforeseen situations
• High level of acceptance

• Worked on Production systems
• Datacenter understanding
• Experience with Server Migration, Installation, Upgrades and Patching
• Experience on following will be added advantage
• Samba
• DNS
• NIM
• Sendmail
• LDAP
• Monitoring Tools (like BMC Patrol, HP openview, IBM Tivoli)

• Total : 6+ Years
• Relevant : Minimum 5 yrs in Administration / Support

• 000-221 AIX 7 Administration
• 000-109 Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux - v2