AIX Systems Engineer Enterprise AIX UNIX Scripting VIOS & Printer queues PowerKVM PowerVM in SAP DB2 environ Cape Town

Role:
AIX Systems Engineer to assist the Team Lead in the Unix Team rolling out new AIX systems, maintaining, upgrading, replacing, and improving the long-term performance of the existing systems

You Need:

• Grade 12 + AIX System Administration Certification
• PowerHA(HACMP) AIX Security Network Admin & Performance good to have
• Extensive AIX / core AIX roles & features/ printer queues
• Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, & advanced troubleshooting / PowerHA & Documenting environment & processes. TSAM good to have
• AIX Server fundamentals & concepts
• Volume groups, Logical volumes, mirror pools & RAID levels
• Remote file synchronization
• VIOS
• Network & storage principles
• IBM hardware knowledge
• HMC knowledge
• TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS protocols, firewall, load-balancing technologies & firewalls.
• Virtual environs eg PowerKVM & PowerVM
• Power Server architecture design & implementation
• Scripting (Bash or Korn Shell) to automate tasks. 
• Load balancing technologies & large-scale server farms.
• Virtual environs PowerKVM & PowerVM

To Do:
Implement, administer & maintain AIX Unix Servers:

• Provide level 3 support for AIX Servers.
• Resolve Incidents & fulfil Service Requests using a service management ticket queue & Change Management processes.
• Install, configure & upgrade new & existing AIX servers (physical/LPAR/VIOS) along with other supporting AIX products / technologies & related third party applications.
• Ensure Enterprise AIX server standards are met & maintained.
• Apply patches to the AIX servers (physical/LPAR/VIOS) on a regular basis.
• Configure system security & enforcement of system access policies.
• Responsible for overall health, high availability, maintenance, & documentation of AIX Servers.
• Problem analysis & implementation of corrective actions on new & existing AIX servers.
• Provide after-hours support on a rotating On-Call basis

Implement, administer & support core AIX roles & features such as:printer queues, HA Clustering, File & Storage Services, user account administration, upgrades & migrations:

• Build, test, reconfigure & troubleshoot front & backend printer queues
• Manage & support all aspects of HA clustering.
• Manage NFS3&4 shares
• User, group & elevated account administration.
• Plan & deploy regular upgrade cycles in order to stay up to date with latest SP & TL releases.

Administer & maintain all services related to & ensure maximum uptime of client’s Distribution Centres:

• Provide high level support to the DC Support team
• Provide level 3 support directly to the DC's
• Resolve Incidents & fulfil Service Requests using a service management ticket queue & Change Management processes
• Install, configure & manage core AIX OS features on the DC servers.
• Install, upgrade & configure applications in DC AIX environment.
• Create & maintain Failover Clusters supporting Informix Databases, file shares & applicable applications.

Administer & maintain all services related to & ensure maximum uptime of all SAP AIX systems & database servers:

• Provide high level OS support to the SAP Basis team
• Resolve Incidents & fulfil Service Requests using a service management ticket queue & Change Management processes
• Install, configure & manage core AIX OS features on SAP Unix servers.
• Install, upgrade & configure applications within the SAP AIX environment.
• Create & maintain Failover Clusters supporting DB2 Databases, file shares & applicable applications.

Implement & assist with Disaster recovery management, procedures & documentation:

• Keep DR environment in sync with production environment.
• Assist with DR trials by recovery of AIX systems & applications.
• Assist with creation of DR plan & recovery procedures for AIX systems & applications.
• Assist with creation of DR documentation for AIX systems & applications.
• Test & document successful recovery of backed up systems onto DR Hardware