Senior AIX & IBM Power Systems Engineer (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

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