Senior UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator-AIX/RHEL Migration

University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) seeks a Senior Server Administrator to drive daily maintenance and operations of on-premises and virtual servers, ensuring stability and security of UCSF's computing environment.

The role provides technical leadership in planning migrations, performance tuning, and operational stabilization of RHEL environments while collaborating with faculty, staff, and students to deliver reliable IT services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 5 years of enterprise server administration focusing on IBM AIX on IBM POWER.
• 3 years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration in enterprise environments.
• 3 years supporting high availability, clustering, and DR architectures for mission-critical apps.
• 3 years managing UNIX virtualization (PowerVM, LPAR) and related I/O virtualization.
• 3 years planning OS migrations or platform modernization initiatives.
• 3 years deploying automation frameworks (Ansible, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge of AIX and RHEL administration, security hardening, and performance tuning.
• Ability to implement and support PowerHA and Linux HA solutions.
• Experience integrating UNIX/Linux with enterprise storage and SFTP/MFT frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day maintenance and operations of on-premises and virtual servers.
• Coordinate server needs with customers, partners, and stakeholders across units.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to IT colleagues.
• Support modernization of UNIX platform services, including AIX-to-RHEL migrations.
• Lead planning, migration, performance tuning, and stabilization of RHEL environments.

Skills

AIX administration

PowerVM

RHEL administration

UNIX/Linux virtualization

High availability (PowerHA)

Automation frameworks (Ansible)

IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Security hardening

SFTP/MFT frameworks

System performance tuning

Collaboration with stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

VIOS

GoAnywhere

Live Partition Mobility

Job description

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) seeks a Senior Server Administrator to drive daily maintenance and operations of on-premises and virtual servers, ensuring stability and security of UCSF's computing environment.

The role provides technical leadership in planning migrations, performance tuning, and operational stabilization of RHEL environments while collaborating with faculty, staff, and students to deliver reliable IT services.