6 months Contract
Good to have banking exposure
Role Overview
Hands-on UNIX L3 Administrator with strong expertise in IBM AIX, Linux infrastructure administration, complex troubleshooting, server migrations, automation, virtualization, and high-availability environments.
The candidate must be a technically strong, independent L3 engineer, capable of managing critical production incidents, executing complex UNIX migrations end-to-end, troubleshooting infrastructure failures, and driving automation and reliability improvements with minimal supervision.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide L3 support for enterprise UNIX platforms, including IBM AIX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
- Perform UNIX server migrations, OS upgrades, hardware refresh, data center migrations, and technology modernization.
- Administer IBM PowerVM, LPAR, VIOS, HMC, NPIV, and SEA.
- Manage AIX Live Partition Mobility (LPM), NIM, mksysb, alt_disk_copy, and system recovery.
- Configure and troubleshoot PowerHA, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Manage SAN storage, LVM, JFS2, XFS, NFS, multipathing, and file system migrations.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity management, and root-cause analysis.
- Develop automation scripts using Shell, KSH, Bash, Python, and Ansible.
- Handle OS patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, and production change management.
- Prepare migration runbooks, rollback plans, technical documentation, and post-migration validation.
Mandatory Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in IBM AIX / UNIX L3 administration.
- Hands-on UNIX migration experience, advanced troubleshooting, and strong AIX/PowerVM technical expertise are mandatory.
- Proven experience in UNIX server migration, OS upgrades, and technology refresh.
- Advanced knowledge of PowerVM, VIOS, LPAR, HMC, NIM, and PowerHA.
- Strong understanding of SAN, LVM, storage migration, clustering, and disaster recovery.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting tools: nmon, topas, vmstat, iostat, sar, errpt, and tcpdump.
- Strong scripting capabilities in Shell/Bash/KSH, Python, and Ansible.
- Experience with ServiceNow, Splunk, Dynatrace, Nagios, IBM Storage Protect, or Veritas NetBackup.
- Strong knowledge of ITIL incident, problem, and change management.
Preferred Skills
- IBM Power hardware migration (POWER8/9/10).
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and Veritas Cluster Server.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, Terraform, and enterprise automation.
- Prior experience supporting mission-critical banking infrastructure