Consultant Systems Engineer-AIX

• Must have minimum 13+ years of hands on experience on AIX support & IBM power hardware management. 
• Install, configure, and maintain AIX operating systems 7.1/7.2/7.3  on IBM Power Systems.
• Must have knowledge on downloading packages from IBM fixcentral,packaging / create installable image/ ISO.
• Must have knowledge on scripting  Shell / Perl / Ansible / Python .
• Must have excellent debugging and problem analysis skills.
• Design, implement, and manage PowerHA (HACMP) clusters for high availability.
• Design , Administer and support GPFS (General Parallel File System) for scalable storage solutions.
• Manage Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments, including configuration and troubleshooting.
• Good exposure/hands on experience  on HMC & server firmware upgrades , Network card & Fiber card firmware upgrades.
• Operate and maintain Hardware Management Console (HMC) for Power Systems hardware management.
• Use Network Installation Manager (NIM) for AIX OS deployment and patch management.
• Plan and execute OS migrations + PowerHA software migrations + GPFS software upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Perform Live Partition Mobility (LPM) operations to migrate workloads across physical servers.
• Perform data/disk/filesystem migrations from one storage to different storage.
• Monitor system performance, capacity, and security; perform tuning and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for infrastructure projects and disaster recovery planning.
• Maintain documentation of system configurations, procedures, and policies.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and best practices. Hardening of servers as per security standards.
• Hands on Knowledge on vulnerability management & applying fixes .
• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate and deal with customers. 
• Knowledge of handling p0/p1 tickets  & root cause analysis .
• Always Follow internal processes (SOPs, Golden Rules, ITIL, time tracking, escalation, etc).

Base OS:

-          Installation, upgrade, basic configuration, hardening etc.

-          Troubleshoot booting problems

-          Recover Lost root password , fix filesystem corruption issues

-          Restoration/rebuild of broken server

-          LVM management

-          User Administration, Password policy management, sudo privileges management

-          RPM, filesets installation, fixing broken filesets, libraries etc

-          Filesystem / Disk  Migration to another storage

PowerHA:

-          Installation, configuration of PowerHA Standard and Linked cluster

-          Strong troubleshooting knowledge on different versions of PowerHA

-          RG Movement, LVM in PowerHA, Storage migration in PowerHA

-          PowerHA software upgrades with minimal downtime

-          Migration of CAA disk/ Shared VG data disks

GPFS:

-          Installation and configuration of GPFS clusters

-          Upgrading GPFS clusters

-          Adding space in GPFS, Inode management in PowerHA

-          DR Drill involving GPFS environment

-          Strong troubleshooting skill on GPFS

-          Migration of GPFS tiebreaker disk and GPFS filesystem disks

-          Configurtaion of GPFS repository Server-based and CCR

Virtualization:

-          Installation, configuration, and upgrades of VIO servers

-          SEA configuration, failover

-          SR IOV concepts and working knowledge

-          VSCSI and NPIV concepts

-          Virtual Optical device management

-          Migration of LPARS from one hardware to another hardware using LPM

Automation:

-          Basic knowledge on Python, Ansible

-          Knowledge on puppet

-          Shell scripting

HMC:

-          Addition and removal of managed systems to HMC

-          LPAR management through HMC

-          DLPAR, COD concepts

-          HMC Critical console backup

-          HMC upgrade

Disaster Recovery:

-          Disaster recovery in GPFS scenario

-          Disaster recovery in PowerHA

Hardware management:

-          Knowledge on different hardware models power8/9/10

-          Hardware migration

-          Firmware upgrades

-          Network cards ,Fiber cards code upgrade

Performance tuning and Capacity Management

-          Troubleshooting knowledge on Performance issues at OS level (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk)

-          Capacity Planning

NIM

-          Experience creating and managing mksysb backups and SPOT resources

-          Familiarity with NIM client and server boot processes, including network booting (BOOTP, DHCP, TFTP).

-          Ability to troubleshoot NIM installation and deployment issues.

Other skills:

Incident management

Change management

Problem management

Capacity planning

ITIL frame work

Client Focus

Contribution to Strategy

People Development

Team Leadership

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