Consultant Systems Engineer-AIX
Responsibilities
- 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).
Profile required
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
Why join us
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