Senior AIX/UNIX Administrator

Peraton

3d•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a highly skilled Senior Aix/UNIX Administrator to join our diverse team supporting the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This position can be worked remotely. You will work closely with stakeholders, system owners, and security leadership to maintain and support CBP’s critical mission to protect our nation’s borders.

Requirements

12 years of related IT experience with a High School Diploma.
8 years of related IT experience with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.).
6 years of related IT experience with a Master of Science (M.S.).
5+ years of experience providing operations and maintenance support, including experience identifying/resolving performance issues in a UNIX Environment (Linux, Ubuntu, and/or AIX).
5+ years of experience with Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), including configuration and failover testing.
5+ years of experience with shell scripting.
5+ years of experience supporting infrastructure design and configuration of products including determination of hardware, OS, and other platform specifications.
4+ years of experience providing quality assurance review and the evaluation of new and existing software products.
US Citizen with the ability to pass a background check and obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX.
Experience with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and/or IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX.
Experience with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and/or IBM NetCool Omnibus.

Responsibilities

Configure, monitor, and maintain AIX OS systems in a virtual environment.
Plan, install, test, and implement upgrades and patches to AIX OS.
Provides tier 2 and 3 support for escalations from Help Desk.
Knowledge and experience troubleshooting Linux and Unix based systems.
Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24x7x365 infrastructure operations support.
Support infrequent after-hours and weekend escalations as needed (aside from on-call rotation).
Optimize system operations and resource utilization as well as perform system capacity analysis and planning.
Utilize tools and processes, including but not limited to software distribution, backups, performance measurement, tuning, license and asset management to allow automated as well as remote systems management of the server environment.
Provide support to resolve incidents, problems, or service requests that require subject matter expertise and cannot be resolved by the Enterprise Operations Center (EOC). Task personnel shall provide final problem resolution.
Work with EOC to implement automated preventative measures, proactive monitoring, and system self-healing capabilities to limit outages/performance issues which impact service levels.
Contribute to the Root Cause Analysis efforts when applicable.