AIX Systems Administrator

My client a well known managed service company are looking for an experienced AIX Administrator who has a strong background in project based work.

The desired candidate will have the following;
Duties

- Strong AIX 4.3.x & 5. x 6.x System administration experience
- Strong skill in IBM Virtualization products (HMC, PowerVM, LPM, VIO and LPAR)
- Strong problem determination skills
- Ability to work unsupervised on several issues concurrently
- Able to perform disk management functions such as extending logical volumes, creating file systems, mirroring disks (ie. Not through SMIT)
- Understanding and ability to manually rebuild a Kernel
- Proficient in TCP/IP
- strong understanding of P4/P5/P6/P7 pSeries hardware architectures
- Very comfortable with problem and change management practices
- Knowledge of IBM and non IBM disk subsystems and related device drivers (ESS, DS4xxx, DS8xxx, SVC, XIV, EMC, MPIO, SDDPCM, PowerPath)
- Knowledge of IBM System p hardware products
- System firmware related skills
- HACMP and HACMP/ES skills
- DNS/NTP/SMTP/DHCP skills
- Good Documentation Skills/Technical Documentation
- Flexible working hrs eg. Weekend work, after hours
- Performance Monitoring and trouble-shooting.
- Sound Scripting skills
- Able to perform Operating System and Production Upgrades
- Ability to supervise others
- Liaise with Vendor ie IBM ITS
- Strong understanding and awareness of AIX system security
- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written
- TSM/ADSM operational and troubleshooting knowledge
- Knowledge of IBM RS/6000 hardware platforms
- AIX System Admin Certification
- Some DB2/Oracle DBA exposure
- GPFS exposure
- Vertias (f/s and cluster) experience
- Knowledge of IBM SSA disk subsystem