AIX Senior System Admin - Infrastructure Platforms (Remote)

First Citizens; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens is seeking a Senior AIX Systems Administrator to join the Platform Computing Operations group. The role focuses on IBM Power Systems and AIX environments that support critical banking applications.

The candidate will join a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure availability during production incidents and maintenance windows. The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on experience with AIX, IBM Power hardware, virtualization, DR, automation, and regulatory compliance in highly regulated

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience across AIX administration.
• Experience with IBM Power hardware management.
• Familiarity with regulatory banking requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot IBM AIX operating systems across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Perform installation, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of AIX systems.
• Monitor system performance and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving infrastructure issues.
• Manage file systems, storage allocation, volume groups, logical volumes, and system resources.
• Perform performance tuning and optimization of AIX operating environments.
• Manage IBM Power servers, including Power9 and Power10.
• Administer Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs), firmware upgrades, and hardware maintenance activities.
• Configure and support LPARs, VIOS, shared processor pools, and virtualization technologies.
• Coordinate hardware refreshes, migrations, and capacity planning activities.
• Ensure system configurations comply with banking regulatory, audit, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support internal and external audits and remediation efforts.
• Implement security hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, and patch management processes.

Job description

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AIX Systems Administrator to join our Platform Computing Operations team supporting critical banking platforms. This role is responsible for the administration, maintenance, security, performance, and availability of IBM Power Systems and AIX environments that support mission-critical financial applications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive hands-on experience across all facets of AIX administration, IBM Power hardware management, virtualization technologies, disaster recovery, automation, and regulatory compliance requirements within highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services.

This position participates in an on-call rotation and must be available to provide 24x7 operational support for production incidents, maintenance events, and critical business initiatives.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties and Responbdibilities:

AIX System Administration

• Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot IBM AIX operating systems across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Perform installation, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of AIX systems.
• Monitor system performance and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving infrastructure issues.
• Manage file systems, storage allocation, volume groups, logical volumes, and system resources.
• Perform performance tuning and optimization of AIX operating environments.

IBM Power Systems Administration

• Manage IBM Power servers, including Power9, Power10, and future platforms.
• Administer Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs), firmware upgrades, and hardware maintenance activities.
• Configure and support LPARs, virtual I/O servers (VIOS), shared processor pools, and virtualization technologies.
• Coordinate hardware refreshes, migrations, and capacity planning activities.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure system configurations comply with banking regulatory, audit, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support internal and external audits and remediation efforts.
• Implement security hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, and patch management processes.
• Maintain compliance with applicable frameworks and standards including:
  • FFIEC guidance
  • PCI-DSS
  • SOX controls
  • NIST standards
  • CIS Benchmarks