Unix System Administrator
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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... am: it may also be of interest to you. So read on... UNIX Consultant >10 years experience specialising in AIX & Solaris System administration. My AIX experience now extends into the Virtualisation and micro-partitioning world for Logical Partitions. Please do contact Richard if you are interested in extending your infrastructure to enhance your applications by using an Operating System to operate as it should do. Skills and Experience - Cleared to work under FSA regulations & deal with Money Laundering whilst applying Good Customer Care values - Troubleshooting application ensuring BAU surveillance at 2nd and 3rd level on hundreds of hosts under Aix 5p and SunOS 5.9 with a view to pro-actively maintain operability for businesses, using nmon, nagios, patrol in order to fix memory leaks, security issues, networks glitches & make recommendations - Many, many hours Fault Finding and Hardware Replacement o adding adapter cards for I/O & Ethernet o Carried out pSeries Hardware interventions replacing Flexible Service Processor, memory, CPU, COD, CuOD o Rebuilds, hot replacements of SSA disks in RAID’s with no downtime on mission critical EPOS systems - Proficiency in hardening security routines using Korn, ssh, sudo, Tαmos, tripwire - Risk assessment , project plan and change request controls for the eventual upgrade using NIM. - Acquired for Government contracts Basic Security clearance (expiry date 22/08/2010), CTC & SC and for Banks FSA vetted (2009). - Carried out Project Management using techniques such as Scamper, DOIT, Gantt, PMI, Pareto et al - Ensured regular DR successes using mksysb on tape or NIM, via alternate rootvg - Administered and Configured HMC Aix LPAR, NTP, Focal Point monitoring using GUI or shell, via ssh - Configured SAN configuration DS8100 mostly creating Fixed Block Volume for new and existing extent pool, prior to presenting new LUN to VI/O Servers and subsequent virtual hosts (LPAR): LVM creation and expansion of File Systems - Dynamic LPAR reconfiguration of CPU’s from LPAR’S within Managed Hosts - Korn shell scripting under SCCS, CVS to maintain the principal of coherent versioning. - Mentoring Junior UNIX System Administrators, Orαcle DBA, Siεbel Application Administrators as it is important to coach upwards and across. - Project work includes NetView accessing all TSM commands, configured using SMIT; mobile Robots protocols.Skills: Technical Writing Skills
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