Midrange Engineer - AIX

LightEdge is an enterprise-grade cloud services and colocation company focused on the needs of businesses and their critical IT requirements.

If you want to take your skills to the next level by joining an industry leader, this is an excellent opportunity for you!

LightEdge Solutions is looking for experienced technical individuals for our IBM AIX– Midrange Engineer position!

As a part of the LightEdge Solutions team, you will be accountable for understanding client business and technical requirements, technical design based on best practices, solution implementation, documentation and communication with your team and client.

Candidate must have at least 3-5 years’ hands-on experience in working and supporting IBM Power environment and related networking equipment.

Primarily responsible for the maintenance and administration of Power (AIX servers,, multiple partitions), including message handling, command line utilities, work management, job and print control, device management, system configuration and security setups, backup and restore, client access application, external process and/or file transfer integration, and PTFs management.

Also knowing and supporting TCP/IP networking are required.

Experience with replication or HA software like MIMIX or iTera.

Power HA etc is required.

Responsibilities

Design, Implement and support various aspects of the AIX platform

Maintain and deploy any required operating system upgrades and PTF installations

Design, maintain IBM AIX backups utilizing BRMS, FullSystemFlashCopy, and VTL

Knowledge to setup BRMS software and enterprise tape library architecture (save/restore) Intermediate level

Knowledge of Mimix replication software, or similar software experience, is required

Knowledge of Help Systems tools such as CCSS, Robot Scheduler, Robot Alert, Nagios or similar software is required – any other 3rd party tools

Perform Tuning and Capacity planning as required for all IBM AIX Systems/Logical Partitions

Provide Tier-3 support for operations and applications teams where possible

Task oriented, capable of managing multiple work streams while maintaining focus on results

Provide 3rd tier support for escalated issues regarding customer systems

Ability to communicate clearly in a large enterprise environment

Able to support 24/7 on-call-Perform basic hardware maintenance activities

Understand and recommend IBM AIX system and user security

Provide technical support, training and direction to NOC staff and other team members

Configure partitions and systems using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) through traditional HMC and Virtual HMC

Interface to vendor support organization(s) and work through problem resolution

Education and Experience

Knowledge of AIX system administration and troubleshooting.

Engineer must have 2-3 years’ experience supporting IBM AIX environments

Knowledge of AIX High Availability setup, configuration and administration of MIMIX, iTerra, etc

Experience with PowerVM and VIOS a plus for future designs

Experience with PowerVC as well as Live partition mobility a plus

Proficient in LPAR design, build and validation (Logical Partitioning) a plus

Proficient in planning and upgrading the AIX operating system (AIX) and HMC/Firmware

Proficient in IBM AIX work management

Knowledge of network protocols and troubleshooting skills. IBM AIX TCP/IP configuration and NETSTAT troubleshooting.

Knowledge of AIX networked systems, access and security guidelines and procedures.

Skill in solving technically challenging problems involving AIX based critical applications and hardware issues.

Skill in prioritizing and balancing multiple tasks.

Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with other LightEdge employees.

Skill in providing excellent customer service.

Skill in working in a teamwork environment.