AIX Administrator contract jobs in NJ

AIX Administrator

Iselin, NJ

L2.5 experience in Linux and secondary experience on AIX

Administer, maintain, and support enterprise Linux environments (RHEL 7,8,9).
• Administer Linux servers including patch management, performance tuning, and System upgrades.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of Linux servers across production, non-production,
and DR environments.
• Perform OS installation, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Manage system services, storage, filesystems, kernel parameters, and resource optimization.
• Monitor infrastructure health and proactively address performance bottlenecks.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Perform daytoday system administration activities including user management, permissions, services, and
file systems
• Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity; proactively identify and resolve issues
• Troubleshoot OSlevel issues related to CPU, memory, disk, network, and system services
• Implement OS hardening, security best practices, and support vulnerability
remediation activities
• Manage storage including LVM, RAID, file systems, and mount points
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.
• Review and approve infrastructure changes through change management processes.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL processes for Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request management.
• Manage and Maintain IBM AIX servers including OS management, Firmware updates and AIX Migrations.
• Perform AIX patching, HMC patching, and NIM setup and Operations.
• Ensure Compliance with security benchmark.
• Manage Satellite servers for patching and system management.
• Provide expert level support for Linux/AIX system security including access control, audit logging and
vulnerability mitigation.
• Manage and troubleshoot HP Physical server infrastructure.
• Good understanding on virtualization technologies.
• Support day to day issues like server hung, unexpected reboot and performance issues for DB hosts.
• Maintain System documentation and collaborate with cross functional teams.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure etc.
• Good understanding of Automation tools like Ansible and deep scripting knowledge for configuration
management, deployment and Compliance.
• Basic understanding of Dynatrace monitoring tools.