Systems Administrator - III

Title: Systems Administrator - III (REMOTE)

Location: Richmond, VA

Remote

Job Description:

Pay Rate Range: $ 55.58 /hr - $71.43/hr on W2
Requirement:
• 8+ years professional experience in the area of Unix Operating system technologies
• Experience with operating system and clustering component configuration
• Strong experience with automation and orchestration tools, including Ansible, Python, Aria, UNIX scripting, etc., and previous work with Agile methodologies
• Must be able to work both collaboratively and independently and take initiative to identify, track, and resolve issues
• Expert knowledge of AIX LVM, LPAR profile creation, configuration, PowerVM administration, AIX OS installation (via NIM) and configuration, OS user, group creation, administration, HMC administration.
• Strong comfort level with NIM administration and automation, Power Systems firmware upgrades, SSH/SFTP client/server administration.
• Solid foundation with network concepts and AIX, VIOS network administration (Ethernet, VLANs, TCP/IP, 802.1q, vSwitches, SEAs), NFS client/server administration, SUDO configuration, LDAP client administration.
• In addition to experience working with Unix technologies, the following skills will be required.
o Networking and storage technologies used by the Client
o Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban practices
• Familiarity with AIX performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities:
• Regular System Administrator activities
• Automate software lifecycle management for Operating system components, support software, and configuration management
• Experience in identifying toil in Operating Systems
• Applies analytics on past data like incidents and patterns for predicting issues and takes proactive actions
• Initial work schedule: Monday – Friday, then will transition to either Tuesday-Saturday OR Sunday-Thursday