AIX System Administrator

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ANY 3RD PARTY SOLICITATIONS. ANY SUCH INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED OR RECEIVE A RESPONSE. WE CAN ONLY WORK WITH DIRECT APPLICANTS WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE US WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP. THIS IS AN ON-SITE ROLE FOR LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY.To be considered for an interview, please make sure your application is full in line with the job specs as found below.SOFT's client located in Remotely ( TX, VA, NJ ) is looking for a AIX System Administrator for a long term contract assignment.Qualifications:AIX System Administrator Position• 8+ years professional experience in the area of Unix Operating system technologies• Experience with operating system and clustering component configuration• Strong experience with automation and orchestration tools, including Ansible, Python, Aria, UNIX scripting, etc., and previous work with Agile methodologies• Must be able to work both collaboratively and independently and take initiative to identify, track, and resolve issues• Expert knowledge of AIX LVM, LPAR profile creation, configuration, PowerVM administration, AIX OS installation (via NIM) and configuration, OS user, group creation, administration, HMC administration.• Strong comfort level with NIM administration and automation, Power Systems firmware upgrades, SSH/SFTP client/server administration.• Solid foundation with network concepts and AIX, VIOS network administration (Ethernet, VLANs, TCP/IP, 802.1q, vSwitches, SEAs), NFS client/server administration, SUDO configuration, LDAP client administration.• In addition to experience working with Unix technologies, the following skills will be required. xhyhwjd o Networking and storage technologies used by the FRSo Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban practices• Familiarity with AIX performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting.Responsibilities:• Regular System Administrator activities• Automate software lifecycle management for Operating system components, support software, and configuration management• Experience in identifying toil in Operating Systems• Applies analytics on past data like incidents and patterns for predicting issues and takes proactive actions