AIX System Administrator

AIX System Administrator (Contract position)
Our Fortune 500 client is seeking resumes for an AIX System Administrator responsible for managing a large number of standalone and virtualized AIX environments in the Distributed Systems group within their Information Technology department.

Education: 4-year College Degree preferably in IT Technical/Professional

Skills Required:

- Extensive experience with IBM AIX 6.1 and VIO server 2.2 and experience with AIX 7.1
- Extensive experience with IBM Power Virtualization, creation and management of virtual Servers, Hardware Management Consoles
- Extensive experience with Live Partition Mobility
- Extensive experience with NPIV
- Extensive experience using SAN disks from multiple SAN vendors
- Experience with writing scripts using Korn Shell, Perl
- Experience with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Monitoring
- Experience with troubleshooting software and hardware problems
- Experience installing IBM APARs, PTFs, maintenance upgrades
- TCP/IP and networking experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong teamwork and customer support focus
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and simplify technical information, and clearly communicate this information to target audiences

Skills Preferred:

- Experience working with software development technical teams
- Experience tuning the AIX environment
- Performance management of Servers in a virtualized environment
- Experience with NIM, IBM Power Linux, Java,
- Experience working on IBM POWER6, POWER7 and POWER8 server hardware, firmware upgrades
- Infiniband and GPFS
- MicroFocus Cobol
- WebSphere MQ
- Genesys Management Framework
- Experience using Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook and other Microsoft Office Suite products
- Familiar with IBM DB2, Oracle DB, MySQL
- Understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley

Experience required:

- 6-8 years of enterprise AIX administration in a corporate environment
- Working with subject matter experts and users

Responsibilities:

- Managing a number of assigned Servers and applications, backup on other Servers and applications
- Standard troubleshooting procedures for hardware and software problems
- Software maintenance
- Configuration documents
- Scheduled 24/7 on-call support
- Technical diagrams (server environments, relationship diagrams, workflows, etc.)

For immediate consideration, please forward all resumes to (see below) or call.

Synergis serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.
Synergis is an Equal Opportunity employer.