Face to Face interview might be required.
Position: AIX System Administrator
Duration: 3+ months
Location: PA
Rate: $33.00 per hour { No expenses can be paid.}
Short Description:
System Administrator is responsible for server back up and security, along with performance tuning and capacity planning. SAs should possess an understanding of network and distributed computing concepts.
Complete Description:
SA 3
Years of Relevant Experience: 4 plus years
Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study.
Required / Desired Skills
Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience
AIX System Administration Required 5 Years
Shell scripting Required 3 Years
Perl scripting Required 1 Years
Oracle eBusiness Support Nice to have
Oracle Retail Support Nice to have
UC4 Appworx Administration Nice to have
Role Description:
- Familiarity with most basic system administrator tools and process; for example, can boot/shutdown a machine, add and remove user accounts, use back up programs, and maintain system database files.
- Maintain the project servers.
- Maintain the file and print capacity
- Ensures that backups are performed as appropriate.
- Act as a front-line interface to users.
- Accepts trouble reports and dispatch them to appropriate system administrators.
- Ability to write scripts in a particular administrative language.
- Programming experience with any applicable language.
- Communicate accurate and useful status updates.
- Manage and report time spent on all work activities.
- Follow quality standards.
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Complete assigned tasks.
- Strong communication skills; both written and spoken.
- Responsible for operating and other system software.
- Responsible for upgrading the operating and system software and keeping patches current.
- Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
- Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of programs.
- Execute the disaster recovery/back up procedures and archiving procedures.
- Manage security for servers.
- Responsible for performance tuning, capacity planning, database administration, and fault management.
- Provide tier two support of the technical infrastructure.
- Coordinating efforts with vendors if tier three support is required.
- Responsible for ensuring high priority issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Responsible for keeping the environment up and running.
- In many cases is responsible for identifying and reporting hardware problems.
- Capable of writing purchase justifications.
- Understands basic routing concepts.
- Identify and track issues, risks, and action items.
- Resolve and/or assist in resolving issues.
- Review, prioritize, and research service requests.
- Anticipate and resolve issues specific to the team.
- Determine time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Plus the following:
- Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
- Understands principles of routing client/server programming.
- Manage expectations at all levels: customers/end users, executive sponsors.
- Ensure quality standards are followed.
- Understand the business application of technical support and design in an application development environment.
- Work with the various Infrastructure teams and operations provider to identify the strategic direction of systems management activities.
- Understands the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts
- Maintain strong relationships with employees and various tier two and three support groups.
- Develop plans for disaster recovery/ back up and archiving.
- Manage the daily operations of the systems management team to ensure service levels are being met.
- Manage the systems management team’s support issue and backlog.
- Monitor the team’s open backlog of support issues and re-assign issues as necessary to ensure they are closed per agreed upon service levels.
- Act as the first level of escalation for high priority support issues.
- Function as the liaison to the various support groups with whom the systems management team interfaces.
- Develop the technical infrastructure maintenance strategy.
- Manage the system management resources.
- Act as a system’s management expert.
- Analyze, determine, and document requirements in terms of system management needs and implement them.
- Identify, approve, and prioritize team projects.
- Manages a large site or network.
- Recommends policies on system use and services.
In addition to the above, the candidate will:
- Support Oracle eBusiness (financials) and Oracle Retail application servers consisting of over 80 IBM AIX servers at the Commonwealth's outsourcer, the Data PowerHouse.
- Troubleshoot and resolve support issues
- Support weekly applications re-start and scheduled maintenance
- Automate (script) weekly applications re-starts and scheduled maintenance
- Develop file, directory, process, etc... management scripts to improve the operations of the Oracle applications
- Monitor the health of the servers and respond to alerts
- Participate in capacity planning
- Recommend server configuration changes and strategies to minimize downtime and improve performance
- Design, develop and manage backup and recovery policies and procedures
- Manage and monitor disk space
- Manage and monitor the disaster recovery environments
- Apply/migrate changes to development, test and production environments as needed
- Participate in change control meetings
- Maintain the patch inventory and patch logs
- Participate in problem resolution arising from functional testing activities.
- Assist in the cloning of applications and databases between production and test.
- Prepare application and OS Change Requests for the outsourcer.
Some night and weekend work will be required.
Key Skills: VIO and Automation scripting
Thanks and Regards,
Amrutha
Aim Computer Consulting
N. Laurel Park Drive,
Suite #513,
Livonia, MI-48152
734-591-3562 Extn.1+167
Fax: 7344182598
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