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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, Implement and support various aspects of the AIX platformMaintain and deploy any required operating system upgrades and PTF installationsDesign, maintain IBM AIX backups utilizing BRMS, FullSystemFlashCopy, and VTLKnowledge to setup BRMS software and enterprise tape library architecture (save/restore) Intermediate level Knowledge of Mimix replication software, or similar software experience, is requiredKnowledge of Help Systems tools such as CCSS, Robot Scheduler, Robot Alert, Nagios or similar software is required – any other 3rd party toolsPerform Tuning and Capacity planning as required for all IBM AIX Systems/Logical PartitionsProvide Tier-3 support for operations and applications teams where possibleTask oriented, capable of managing multiple work streams while maintaining focus on resultsProvide 3rd tier support for escalated issues regarding customer systemsAbility to communicate clearly in a large enterprise environmentAble to support 24/7 on-call-Perform basic hardware maintenance activitiesUnderstand and recommend IBM AIX system and user securityProvide technical support, training and direction to NOC staff and other team membersConfigure partitions and systems using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) through traditional HMC and Virtual HMCInterface to vendor support organization(s) and work through problem resolutionEducation and Experience Knowledge of AIX system administration and troubleshooting.Engineer must have 2-3 years’ experience supporting IBM AIX environmentsKnowledge of AIX High Availability setup, configuration and administration of MIMIX, iTerra, etcExperience with PowerVM and VIOS a plus for future designsExperience with PowerVC as well as Live partition mobility a plusProficient in LPAR design, build and validation (Logical Partitioning) a plusProficient in planning and upgrading the AIX operating system (AIX) and HMC/FirmwareProficient in IBM AIX work managementKnowledge 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.
