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Consultant AIX
HCLTech Sri Lankalinkedin.com
Sep 25, 2026, 6:04 PM4w ago
Full-timeColombo, Western ProvinceDevOps
About the role
The Consultant AIX role involves installing, managing, and supporting IBM AIX systems, including server provisioning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and ensuring maximum uptime. The position requires hands-on work with IBM POWER hardware architectures, AIX operating systems, and associated systems management tools. Responsibilities include managing virtual resources, storage, networking, PowerHA and GPFS clusters, and collaborating with architects and capacity managers. The consultant will also participate in disaster recovery, firmware upgrades, and high-availability solution implementation.
Must have
- Strong understanding of P6/P7/P8/P9/P10 Series hardware architectures.
- Build AIX server requirements according to project specification.
- Work hand-in-hand with architect and capacity manager on AIX server capacity server provisioning.
- Provide AIX operating systems support and ensure maximum performance and uptime for all AIX servers. Analyze issues related to AIX and supporting software. Coordinate and support deployment of AIX supporting software, and application related software upgrades/patches.
- Certification and Engineering of associated Systems Management agents/tools/etc.
- Consulting and Design activities related to LoB managed IBM POWER systems/solutions.
- Responsible for installing and managing IBM AIX systems. Assist with the development of standards, guidelines and policies related to the design and architecture of Unix AIX solutions.
- Experience in File Systems, Processes, Performance tuning and troubleshooting. Manage VIO, Hardware Management Console. Experience in system recovery using mksysb image using NIM server and Disaster Recovery.
- Create and manage LPARs, Shared Processor Pools, and virtual resources.
- Configure and administer VIOS (Virtual I/O Server).
- Manage virtual storage and virtual networking.
- Perform LPAR migrations using Live Partition Mobility (LPM).
- Allocate and optimize CPU, memory, and storage resources.
- Conduct firmware upgrades and Power Systems maintenance activities.
- Configure and maintain NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) environments.
- Create and manage Virtual Fibre Channel adapters.
- Configure NPIV client mappings between VIOS and LPARs.
- Perform SAN disk provisioning and validation.
- Troubleshoot Virtual FC, MPIO, path failures, and SAN connectivity issues.
- Coordinate with Storage and SAN teams for zoning, masking, and LUN presentation.
- Install, configure, and maintain PowerHA clusters.
- Manage cluster resources, resource groups, service IPs, and failover policies.
- Perform cluster health checks, failover testing, and DR drills.
- Troubleshoot cluster communication, synchronization, and startup issues.
- Implement high-availability solutions for critical applications and databases.
- Install, configure, and administer GPFS/Spectrum Scale clusters.
- Create and manage GPFS file systems, NSDs, and storage pools.
- Monitor GPFS cluster health and performance.
- Configure replication, data placement policies, and quota management.
- Troubleshoot GPFS node, disk, and filesystem issues.
Technologies
- Firmware
- Nim
- Unix
- Virtualization
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