IBM employment for Midrange Administrator, Thursday 2, June 2011

In today's networked world, IBM maintains a strong and unique presence in Canada, making important contributions to this country's economy, technology leadership and the communities where we live and work. IBM is one of the largest technology, services and consulting organizations in Canada. We help clients of all sizes and in all industries transform their operations through the use of technology, infusing intelligence into the systems that run our businesses, our society and the world.This intelligence makes it possible to harness the vast amount of data created by the trillions of connected devices in today's world, and turn it into knowledge that can be used to anticipate, forecast and even predict changes in our systems. This is the vision behind IBM's Smarter Planet strategy.

Canada is home to the largest team of IBM software professionals outside of the United States. Our software development lab sites in Markham, London, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria—collectively known as the IBM Canada Lab—are responsible for delivering IBM software solutions that are used worldwide. We seek qualified candidate for the below position.

Job ID: ITD-0412223
Work country: Australia
Work city: Canberra
Travel: No travel
Business unit: ServSysOps
Commissionable/Sales-Incentive jobs only: No
Job type: Full-time Regular
Posted: 02-Jun-2011
Job area: IT & Telecommunications (non consulting)
Job category: Technical Services
Job role: Systems Administrator
Job role skillset: Systems Management



Job description
Delivery of key Midrange Projects for the Federal Government Customers we service.

Duties & Responsibilities
• Plan upgrades and other changes to the UNIX environment
• Actively and pre-emtively determine possible failure faults and causes
• Provide Team Leaders/managers with input re projects/direction when required
• Manage and resolve problems identified by users or monitoring software
• Work with change and problem management tools
• Provide technical assistance to the other members of the System Administration team and Share knowledge/experiences
• Hardware fault detection and correction - vendor liasing
• Liase with customer accounts as required
• 24x7 on-call support

Desired Experience
• TSM/ADSM operational and troubleshooting knowledge
• Knowledge of IBM RS/6000 hardware platforms
• AIX System Admin Certification
• Some DB2/Oracle DBA exposure
• GPFS exposure
• Vertias (f/s and cluster) experience
• Knowledge of IBM SSA disk subsystem

Technical Skills
AIX System Administration (AIX 4.3.x, 5.x and 6.x)
Disk Management functions (logical volumes, mirroring disks)
TCIP/IP experience and knowledge
Virtualization Technologies – PowerVM, VIOS, HMC, LPM, LPAR
SAN Storage and its Subsystem Knowledge
HACMP & HACMP/ES skills
SDDPCM, Power Path, MPIO

Non-Technical Skills
Communication
Problem solving
Lateral Thinking & Analytical skills
Documentation skills

Required
Bachelor's Degree
English: Fluent
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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