Senior AIX & Power Systems Administrator

Dicetek LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced IBM AIX Administrator to design, implement, and support AIX environments across production and disaster recovery sites in Abu Dhabi. The role covers Power8/9/10 servers, LPAR provisioning, VIOS, PowerVM, HMC, PowerHA, GPFS, NIM, and security remediation.

You will develop automation with Shell, KornShell, and Ansible, monitor performance, and participate in DR exercises and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 16 years of hands-on experience in IBM AIX administration.
• Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Experience managing large-scale production and disaster recovery infrastructures.
• Experience in regulated environments with strict availability, security, and compliance.
• Exposure to Banking/Financial Services is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain and support IBM AIX environments across production and disaster recovery sites.
• Manage IBM Power Systems infrastructure including Power8/Power9/Power10 servers and LPAR provisioning.
• Administer VIOS, PowerVM virtualization, Shared Processor Pools and virtual I/O configurations.
• Implement, administer and troubleshoot PowerHA clusters and GPFS/Storage Scale environments.
• Perform AIX TL/SP upgrades, firmware upgrades, patch management and security remediation.
• Administer and maintain NIM infrastructure including OS deployment, alternate disk installation and mksysb recovery.
• Monitor system performance, and carry out advanced performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Develop automation scripts using Shell, KornShell and Ansible.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system hardware and OS issues; participate in DR planning and testing.
• Provide 24/7 support and participate in on-call rotations; lead RCA and preventive actions.

Skills

IBM AIX Administration

Power Systems

PowerVM Virtualization

LPAR Management

VIOS Administration

HMC Administration

PowerHA Clusters

GPFS / Storage Scale

NIM Administration

OS Hardening

Performance Tuning

Shell Scripting

Ansible

Disaster Recovery Planning

Incident/Problem/RCA

Tools

HMC

NIM

AIX TL/SP Upgrades

Job description

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced IBM AIX Administrator to design, implement, and support AIX environments across production and disaster recovery sites in Abu Dhabi. The role covers Power8/9/10 servers, LPAR provisioning, VIOS, PowerVM, HMC, PowerHA, GPFS, NIM, and security remediation.

You will develop automation with Shell, KornShell, and Ansible, monitor performance, and participate in DR exercises and on-call rotations.