AIX ENGINEER - SECURITY CLEARED- CONTRACT- REMOTE

AIX ENGINEER - SECURITY CLEARED- CONTRACT- REMOTE

Leading Managed Services Provider in the Defence Sector requires AIX Administrator/Engineer to join the 2nd Line AIX support team. As part of a small team within a larger Operations organization. The role will be to deliver support services and change to AIX platforms hosting IT services critical to our Customer.

Location: TELFORD - Mostly remote

Duration: 5 Months rolling contract

**A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered**

Your experience -
At least 5-10 years' experience of supporting (2nd to 3rd Line) IBM/AIX servers and platforms within large scale and infrastructures (1000+ servers).
Significant knowledge of AIX infrastructure & virtualization.
UNIX scripting skills.
Technical leadership during projects and live service events.
Strong teamwork and interpersonal communication.

Have a proven problem solving ability.
Proactive approach to personal workload management.
Awareness of the ITIL Service Management framework and specifically incident and change management.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• HMC (CR4,5,6,7,8,9) and Power 6,7,8 (520, 570, 720, 740, 770, 824, 870) hardware
  * AIX version 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 software
  * PHA version 5.2, 7.1, and 7.2
  * VIO O/S version 1.5, 2.2-2.6, and 3.1
  * Firmware application (various versions)
  * EMC PowerPath

Key responsibilities
* Resolution of incidents and problems,
* Delivering infrastructure change and projects,
* The presentation and removal of SAN storage
* Identifying and delivering service improvements.
* Develop the capability and skills of peers and junior engineers.

You will be empowered to identity better ways of doing things and share your ideas. You can expect to attain skills in new technologies to ensure continued growth of technical capability, with opportunities to work with all our operational teams (inc. Windows, Solaris/Linux, Storage and Backup teams) to enhance that learning.

Please apply via this ad in the first instance or send a CV with covering note or contact me on 07587743762 or Balla@projectpeople.com

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.