Senior AIX & IBM Power Systems Admin - Remote

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Senior AIX Systems Administrator to join the Platform Computing Operations team. You will manage IBM Power Systems and AIX environments, ensuring performance, security, and reliability for mission-critical banking applications.

The role requires hands-on expertise across AIX, Power hardware, virtualization, disaster recovery, automation, and regulatory compliance, with on-call responsibilities for 24x7 production support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 6+ years in systems engineering/systems programming.
• 10+ years of enterprise-level AIX administration experience preferred.
• Experience with IBM Power hardware platforms (Power9/Power10).

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot IBM AIX operating systems across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Manage IBM Power servers, including Power9, Power10, and future platforms; administer HMCs and firmware upgrades.
• Configure and support LPARs, VIOS, shared processor pools, and virtualization technologies; coordinate hardware refreshes and capacity planning.
• Ensure configurations comply with banking regulatory, audit, and cybersecurity requirements; support audits and remediation.
• Develop and troubleshoot automation scripts using Shell, KornShell (ksh), Perl, Python; maintain runbooks and procedures.
• Lead root cause analysis for AIX/Power issues; collaborate with application, database, storage, network, and security teams.
• Participate in a rotating 24x7 on-call schedule; support planned maintenance outside business hours.

Skills

AIX administration

IBM Power Systems

Scripting (ksh, bash, Python)

Automation (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform

Disaster Recovery

Regulatory compliance

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

HMC

VIOS

PowerVM

LPAR

NIM

SAN storage

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Senior AIX Systems Administrator to join the Platform Computing Operations team. You will manage IBM Power Systems and AIX environments, ensuring performance, security, and reliability for mission-critical banking applications.

The role requires hands-on expertise across AIX, Power hardware, virtualization, disaster recovery, automation, and regulatory compliance, with on-call responsibilities for 24x7 production support.