Estimated Length: 6 months Full-Time Negotiable within normal business hours.  On-call and off hours coverage required.

Mandatory Requirements

Expert 84+ Months

Desired Requirements

• 84 + months designing/installing/configuring/upgrading IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 & 7.2 operating systems on Power5, Power6 and Power7 platforms including installing and configuring PowerVM virtualization services and high availability technology including HACMP and Power HA
• 36+ months supporting servers utilizing Commvault backup and One Touch recovery solution.
• 60 + months supporting servers with virtualized SAN attached storage such as IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX. This experience should include installation and configuration of NFS shared, Samba, and GPFS clustered file systems.
• 84+ months creating, modifying and managing KORN shell scripts and system utilities
• 84 + months supporting LPAR’s running a variety of applications including, Tivoli workload, WebSphere, MQ/Message Broker, InfoSphere DataStage, Rational ClearCase, Guardium, InfoPrint, Cobol, Oracle Application and Oracle Clusterware, IHS/Apache web servers using LDAP and CA SiteMinder authentication.  
• 84 + months maintaining LPAR’s in an N-Tier, load balanced network environment including experience working with network and DNS teams to troubleshoot issues relating to IP (both TCP and UDP), subnetting, routing, vlans, and firewalls  
• 60 + months performing AIX diagnostic and tuning activities utilizing NMON and LPAR2RRD, IBM Tivoli , Zabbix, Splunk and functioning as a single point of contact between the customer, other support teams, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Architect/Install/configure/upgrade IBM AIX 6.1 – 7.2 OS infrastructure on Power 7/Power 8 hardware including P720, P750, P770, P780, 795 and P880.
• Perform firmware upgrades on frames and HMC’s. Perform backup and restore of LPAR’s using CommVault and MKSYSB.
• Design and configure PowerVM and all virtualization services such as Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA), VLAN, VLAN tagging, IVE, NPIV, CPU pooling, Live Partition Mobility (LVM) and virtual SCSI services to multiple VIO client partitions.
• Install, configure and support an HA environment utilizing Power HA, manage NFS share, Samba, and GPFS clustered file systems. 
• Support servers with SAN attached storage utilizing EMC VMAX and VNX storage systems virtualized by VPLEX.
• Maintain LPAR’s in an N-Tier, load balanced network environment using Global Site Selector/Content Services Switches. Submit firewall and DNS requests to the network team. Troubleshoot complex network issues.
• Perform AIX diagnostic and tuning activities using ITM.  Function as a single point of contact between the customer, other support teams, and vendors. 
• Modifying and managing KORN shell scripts and system utilities
• Support LPAR’s running IBM middleware including IHS, WebSphere, MQ/Message Broker, InfoSphere DataStage, Rational ClearCase, Guardium, InfoPrint, Tivoli workload and monitoring.
• Install and configure IHS/Apache web servers using LDAP and SiteMinder authentication.
• Install and configure servers to run DB2, Oracle, Oracle clusterware, ColdFusion, Cobol, and assist DBA’s with installation, configuration and troubleshooting of software.

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