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- UNIX System Administrator (100% remote)
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**Job Title**
UNIX System Administrator (100% Remote)
**Role Summary**
Responsible for the administration, maintenance, upgrade, and troubleshooting of IBM AIX/Power systems and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments. Ensures reliability, security, and performance of UNIX infrastructure, supports migrations, and maintains comprehensive documentation and asset records.
**Expectations**
- Minimum 5 years of enterprise‑level UNIX system administration experience.
- Proven expertise with IBM AIX, PowerHA, HMC, VIOS, PowerVM, and RHEL.
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote setting and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
- Strong problem‑solving, security hardening, and documentation skills.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Administer, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot AIX systems, LPARs, PowerHA clusters, HMCs, VIOS, and managed Power servers.
- Build and manage virtual AIX servers using PowerVM; handle lifecycle migrations of IBM Power hardware.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and implement remediation for AIX and RHEL platforms.
- Administer, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot RHEL servers to meet compliance standards.
- Maintain up‑to‑date technical documentation, diagrams, and CMDB entries for all UNIX assets.
- Participate in outage, capacity, and performance planning; tune systems for optimal availability.
- Collaborate with security, application development, and infrastructure teams; contribute to SOPs and best‑practice development.
- Execute additional projects and tasks as directed to support overall IT infrastructure goals.
**Required Skills**
- AIX system administration (5 + years) – including LPAR, PowerHA, HMC, VIOS, Managed Systems.
- PowerVM virtualization and virtual server provisioning.
- RHEL administration and security hardening.
- UNIX/Linux troubleshooting, monitoring, and preventive maintenance.
- Experience with system build processes, patch management, and asset tracking (CMDB).
- Strong scripting/automation skills (shell preferred).
- Knowledge of security standards and OS hardening.
- Excellent analytical and communication abilities.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field *or* equivalent professional experience.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified System Administrator, IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX) are preferred but not mandatory.