AIX Unix Admin

Role:

AIX Unix Admin

Location:

Irving, TX

• IBM AIX Administration (10+ Years)
• IBM Power Systems, PowerVM, VIOS, HMC, LPAR
• IBM PowerVC Administration
• NIM, PowerHA/HACMP
• Red Hat Open Shift & Open Shift Virtualization
• SAN Storage, NPIV, Fibre Channel
• Shell Scripting, Ansible, Python
• Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting
• DR, Backup, Security Hardening

• Lead the administration, maintenance, and Level 3 support of enterprise IBM AIX, IBM Power Systems, PowerVM, VIOS, HMC, LPAR, NIM, and PowerHA environments.
• Administer and troubleshoot IBM PowerVC, including virtual machine provisioning, lifecycle management, capacity optimization, resource monitoring, and virtualization automation.
• Design, deploy, configure, and support Red Hat Open Shift Virtualization platforms to modernize and manage traditional virtual machine workloads.
• Perform advanced system administration activities, including AIX upgrades, patching, performance tuning, security hardening, capacity planning, automation, and root cause analysis.
• Manage enterprise storage integration across SAN, NPIV, Fibre Channel, multipathing, and IBM storage platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Shell Scripting, Ansible, Python, and Open Shift CLI to improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.
• Lead migration and modernization initiatives involving AIX workloads, PowerVM environments, PowerVC, and Open Shift-based virtualization platforms.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, storage, cloud, security, and application teams to design and implement resilient, scalable, and highly available solutions.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, capacity, and security while ensuring compliance with established SLAs, operational standards, and change‑management processes.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform detailed root cause analysis, and implement preventive and permanent corrective actions.
• Provide Level 3 technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, support technical reviews, and drive operational best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.