Senior AIX Systems administrator

Senior AIX Systems administrator - Full time, target Salary 75K, ,
Mississauga.



Key Responsibilities:



1. Plan, schedule and coordinate all systems administration activities,
including installation, testing, deployment and configuration of hardware
and software.

2. Provide 2nd level systems support for the AIX, Linux and SCO
environments for a 24X7 environment.

3. Capacity planning and project software/hardware requirements for the
Enterprise Computing infrastructure. Ensure performance and
high-availability requirements of systems and services are met in our 99.99%
uptime environment.

4. Monitor disks performance, CPU, Wait stat, memory and paging space
usage.

5. Prepare capacity report and communicate to management on potential
issues.

6. Maintain and document the configurations of all system components,
including application software, web servers, database servers and operating
systems.

7. Evaluate, test and validate new releases prior to implementation on
variations of system configurations.

8. Investigate, repair and provide technical support to problems as
they arise.

9. Provides after hours rotational coverage for service failure resolution
and on call pager support.

10. Provide daily technical support of enterprise computing environment and
end users.

11. Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information,
sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause
of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses
consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others.





Skills and Requirements:







· Post secondary education in Computer Science or relevant
discipline.

· 3-5 years of experience with maintaining and supporting IBM
AIX-based systems in a 24X7 mission- critical environment

· 2-4 years experience supporting systems management /monitoring/
backup applications such as BMC patrol, CA Autosys, Veritas Netbackup

· 2-4 years of experience with maintaining and supporting Linux
systems

· 1-3 years script writing experience, including korn / bourne/ bash
shell scripting.

· 2-4 years experience with maintaining and supporting SAN and NAS
environments

· Experience with P series is an asset

· The individual requires a good understanding of network domain
structure and protocols (i.e. Token Ring, Ethernet, TCP/IP), knowledge of
Internet and WEB technologies


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Regards,

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