AIX Administrator

The Plymouth Rock Group of Companies writes and manages more than $1 billion in personal and commercial auto and homeowner?s insurance across the Northeast, including a substantial premium volume in New Jersey. We pride ourselves on setting standards of service excellence in dealings with customers, agents and our employees that are difficult for others in the industry to match.

 AIX Administrator Job Location:

Northern New Jersey - Local candidate preferred.

 

Job Description:

Seeking an energetic AIX System Administrator. This individual will be part of a team developing and supporting new and exisitng AIX environments. Candidate will provide system administration, configuration, trouble shooting, and other support for an AIX environment. Key skills for this job are: AIX Partitioning and SAN experience (EMC).

Specific responsibilities include:

Support the AIX environment through the entire server life cycle - forecasting to acquisitions through decommissioning.

Configure attached storage ? both internal SCSI RAID and EMC SAN devices. Create new logical volumes, filesystems and directory structures as requested. Monitor disk usage and proactively take action to avoid production issues.

Automate routine system administration tasks such as logfile cleanup, system and application backups, and user id creation and deletion using UNIX shell scripting. Schedule and verify tasks using cron.

Troubleshoot problems using native AIX tools and utlities to check system status including CPU, memory, and space utilization. Identify root causes (hardware, operating system, application) and take apporpriate actions to resolve, working with internal resources and third party vendors to provide complete solutions.

Take part in an On-Call rotation supporting 24x7 critical Produciton applications. Provide support as required during normal business hours as well as after hours.

Apply AIX operating system updates and infrastructure application updates (WebSphere, JAVA, EMC PowerPath) to ensure that the environments are running optimally at supported software levels. Install and configure new servers using NIM.

 

Job Skills and Experience:

Our ideal candidate must have:Experience supporting critical production infrastructure Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol and networking in general (LAN/WAN)Prior experience configuring and managing LPAR partitions using VIO under AIX 5.3Excellent problem-solving, diagnostics and trouble shooting ability3+ years of AIX systems administration including operating system installation and upgrades Experience configuring SAN-attached storage (IBM, EMC, HP, Hitachi) under AIX

Knowledge of one or more of the following would also be beneficial:Understanding of the IBM pSeries architectureUnderstanding of DB2/UDB Understanding of WebSphere Experience with any High Availability product ? IBM HACMP, Legato AAM, Veritas Cluster ServerJava, php, Python and perl Understanding of MQ Series

 

 

The Plymouth Rock Companies place a heavy emphasis upon quality of life and ?goodness of fit?. We seek people who have a customer service orientation (i.e., who make an effort to listen to and to understand both internal and external customers, anticipate customer needs, and give high priority to customer satisfaction), pay attention to the feelings and needs of others, and manifest a strong bias for action. We insist on the utmost integrity.  We offer a highly competitive base salary with an annual performance-based bonus, a very generous package of benefits, and a thriving, stable workplace.