AIX Systems Administrator

AIX Systems Administrator and SAN Administrator -- Systems Engineering
Toronto
Salary: 80K

Main purpose of the position
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To provide expertise in systems administration and design to the operations
group, and to provide second-level systems administration support to the
Systems Provisioning group. To provide 24/7 administration and support for
the Storage Infrastructure Environments.


Key responsibilities
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* in consultation with the IT operations team leader, plan and implement
medium- and long-term operations strategies
* Review, approve, and implement changes that pertain to the supported
environments and follow defined Change Control Procedures
* Plan, setup, and implement monitoring systems for errors or performance
problems; troubleshoot major reported problems; perform trend analysis to
anticipate capacity problems
* Planning for both short term and long term storage requirements
* Configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning,
documentation, DRP design/implementation and upgrades of all Tape and Disk
Storage Systems. The role will also support, plan and implement new project
requirements
* Ensure space utilization in storage subsystems is optimized, implement
monitoring
* Ensure that performance of storage subsystems is optimized, implement
monitoring
* Evaluate and setup of NAS and SAN storage architecture
* Perform zoning changes and activations, diagnose and determine
connectivity problem, plan of additional connectivity requirements
* Knowledge of the cabling infrastructure(s) that support the SAN such as
patch panels, fiber optic trunks and patches
* Configuration of enterprise level storage subsystem disk subsystems
including LUN masking and assignments
* Maintain documentation of all storage hardware configurations
* investigate, evaluate and recommend new technologies
* provide specialized system expertise and in-depth operating system and
server knowledge
* design and build-out of all server, application, database infrastructure
throughout the enterprise at the hardware, OS and application layers
* Provides disaster recovery planning and execution
* Technical advisory for major project implementations and drives
investigations for major changes in technology, scale or capability
* guide junior systems administrators in the performance of their duties,
intervening when necessary
* aid in the evaluation of candidates for system administration positions
* act as second level support for customer problems (on call after hours)
* create software and processes to meet company needs by designing,
developing, testing and implementing of utilities or source modifications
* represent the department or company in internal and external projects,
providing technical guidance and expertise
* work with the 3rd party hosting provider as it relates to system and
application layer changes
* perform system administration tasks in a third-party hosted environment
(e.g install software, tune operating system, configure storage arrays and
SAN switches, audit security, trouble shoot system problems to effective
resolution)
* guide actions of managed hosting provider
* Maintain all technical facilities and related equipment


Technical knowledge & skills required
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* at least 3-5 years UNIX System Administration experience
* at least 2-3 years experience with AIX
* at least 2-3 years experience with Linux (eg. RedHat, SUSE)
* at least 1-2 years experience with managing DNS, including some experience
with BIND
* Proficient to expert knowledge IBM storage (eg. DS8100, DS6800, DS4700)
* Experience with Brocade switches
* Experience administering, troubleshooting and configuring EMC SAN
* knowledge of LPAR and HACMP
* Knowledge of IP and Fibre Channel networking
* Experience with IBM pSeries and intel servers
* experience with data centre design and build-out an asset
* expertise with data backup and recovery
* experience with mailservers - Sendmail or similar; Exim experience a plus
* familiarity with network and systems monitoring tools
* proven skills with one of the programming languages (Java, Perl, C), UNIX
shell scripting, SQL
* university degree or college diploma in Computer Science,
Telecommunications, Engineering or similar
* knowledge of PostgreSQL and/or MySQL an asset

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Regards,

Roy Andrade
Alliance Search Group Inc.
roy.TakeThisOut@alliancesearch.net
www.alliancesearch.net
416-265-9688