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Consultant Systems Engineer – AIX
Ref No.: 26-00188
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Consultant Systems Engineer-AIX
Missions
  • Must have minimum 13+ years of hands-on experience on AIX support & IBM power hardware management.
  • Install, configure, and maintain AIX operating systems 7.1/7.2/7.3 on IBM Power Systems.
  • Must have knowledge on downloading packages from IBM fixcentral, packaging / create installable image/ ISO.
  • Must have knowledge on scripting Shell/ Perl/ Ansible/ Python
  • Must have excellent debugging and problem analysis skills.
  • Design, implement, and manage PowerHA (HACMP) clusters for high availability.
  • Design, Administer and support GPFS (General Parallel File System) for scalable storage solutions.
  • Manage Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments, including configuration and troubleshooting.
  • Good exposure/hands on experience on HMC & server firmware upgrades, Network card & Fiber card firmware upgrades.
  • Operate and maintain Hardware Management Console (HMC) for Power Systems hardware management.
  • Use Network Installation Manager (NIM) for AIX OS deployment and patch management.
  • Plan and execute OS migrations + PowerHA software migrations + GPFS software upgrades with minimal downtime.
  • Perform Live Partition Mobility (LPM) operations to migrate workloads across physical servers.
  • Perform data/disk/filesystem migrations from one storage to different storage.
  • Monitor system performance, capacity, and security; perform tuning and troubleshooting.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for infrastructure projects and disaster recovery planning.
  • Maintain documentation of system configurations, procedures, and policies.
  • Ensure compliance with security standards and best practices. Hardening of servers as per security standards.
  • Hands on Knowledge on vulnerability management & applying fixes.
  • Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate and deal with customers.
  • Knowledge of handling p0/p1 tickets & root cause analysis .
  • Always Follow internal processes (SOPs, Golden Rules, ITIL, time tracking, escalation, etc).

Profile
Base OS:
  • Installation, upgrade, basic configuration, hardening etc.
  • Troubleshoot booting problems
  • Recover Lost root password, fix filesystem corruption issues
  • Restoration/rebuild of broken server
  • LVM management
  • User Administration, Password policy management, sudo privileges management
  • RPM, filesets installation, fixing broken filesets, libraries etc
  • Filesystem / Disk Migration to another storage
PowerHA:
  • Installation, configuration of PowerHA Standard and Linked cluster
  • Strong troubleshooting knowledge on different versions of PowerHA
  • RG Movement, LVM in PowerHA, Storage migration in PowerHA
  • PowerHA software upgrades with minimal downtime
  • Migration of CAA disk/ Shared VG data disks
GPFS :
  • Installation and configuration of GPFS clusters
  • Upgrading GPFS clusters
  • Adding space in GPFS, Inode management in PowerHA
  • DR Drill involving GPFS environment
  • Strong troubleshooting skill on GPFS
  • Migration of GPFS tiebreaker disk and GPFS filesystem disks
  • Configuration of GPFS repository Server-based and CCR
Virtualization :
  • Installation, configuration, and upgrades of VIO servers
  • SEA configuration, failover
  • SR IOV concepts and working knowledge
  • VSCSI and NPIV concepts
  • Virtual Optical device management
  • Migration of LPARS from one hardware to another hardware using LPM
  • Automation:
  • Basic knowledge on Python, Ansible
  • Knowledge on puppet
  • Shell scripting
  • HMC:
  • Addition and removal of managed systems to HMC
  • LPAR management through HMC
  • DLPAR, COD concepts
  • HMC Critical console backup
  • HMC upgrade
  • Disaster Recovery:
  • Disaster recovery in GPFS scenario
  • Disaster recovery in PowerHA
  • Hardware management:
  • Knowledge on different hardware models power8/9/10
  • Hardware migration
  • Firmware upgrades
  • Network cards, Fiber cards code upgrade
  • Performance tuning and Capacity Management
  • Troubleshooting knowledge on Performance issues at OS level (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk)
  • Capacity Planning
  • NIM
  • Experience creating and managing mksysb backups and SPOT resources
  • Familiarity with NIM client and server boot processes, including network booting (BOOTP, DHCP, TFTP).
  • Ability to troubleshoot NIM installation and deployment issues.
Other skills:
Incident management
Change management
Problem management
Capacity planning
ITIL frame work
Client Focus
Contribution to Strategy
People Development
Team Leadership