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Softtek Government Solutions · 5 months ago

Sr. UNIX/AIX Administrator

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Softtek Government Solutions is a professional services firm focused on addressing complex threats and challenges. They are seeking a Sr. UNIX/AIX Administrator responsible for managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting AIX servers to ensure the reliability and performance of their computing environment.

Responsibilities

Configure, monitor and maintain AIX OS systems in a virtual environment

Plan, install, test, and implement upgrades and patches to AIX OS

Provides tier 2 and 3 support for escalations from Help Desk

Knowledge and experience troubleshooting Linux and Unix based systems

Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24x7x365 infrastructure operations support

Support infrequent after hours and weekend escalations as needed (aside from on-call rotation)

Optimize system operations and resource utilization as well as perform system capacity analysis and planning

Utilize tools and processes, including but not limited to software distribution, backups, performance measurement, tuning, license and asset management to allow automated as well as remote systems management of the server environment

Provide support to resolve incidents, problems, or service requests that require subject matter expertise and cannot be resolved by the EOC. Task personnel shall provide final problem resolution

Work with EOC to implement automated preventative measures, proactive monitoring and system self-healing capabilities to limit outages/performance issues which impact service levels

Contribute to the Root Cause Analysis efforts when applicable

Qualification

AIX administrationVeritas Cluster ServerShell scriptingLinux troubleshootingIBM Certified System Administrator

Required

10 years of experience and a B.S. or M.S. degree. Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience. Masters (MS) can be substituted with an additional 2 years of related experience

US Citizenship

Active DoD Top Secret and/or T5 background investigation

5+ years of experience providing operations and maintenance support, including experience identifying/resolving performance issues in a UNIX Environment (Linux, Ubuntu, and/or AIX)

5+ years of experience with Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), including configuration and failover testing

5+ years of experience with shell scripting

5+ years of experience supporting infrastructure design and configuration of products including determination of hardware, OS, and other platform specifications

4+ years of experience providing quality assurance review and the evaluation of new and existing software products