Wednesday, March 31, 2010

AIX System Administrator, PA {4 plus years }

 

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

amrutha@aim-cc.com

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