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Varite

Systems Administrator - III

Varite, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23214

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Pay rate range: $55-71/hr.

Job Description: AIX System Administrator Position Qualifications: • 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 FRS 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