AIX System Engineer

Your Role

As AIX System Engineer at Bank J. Safra Sarasin you are strengthening our platform team as a professional and experienced engineer and providing maintenance, optimization and modernization of our enterprise infrastructure across AIX, Linux environments.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AIX-based enterprise systems, including LPARs, VIO, NIM and HMC/IVM
• Operate, maintain and expand Linux and Unix systems, as well as their basic infrastructure (storage, hardware and network)
• Collaborate in conceiving and implementing projects, as well as further developing and optimizing existing infrastructure
• Provide second level support within the existing support organization, including on-call duty
• Ensure compliance with security policies, backup strategies, and change management procedures
• Demonstrate expertise working with Ansible to automate daily tasks

Your Profile

• University degree (university / FH) in Computer Science
• 5 years of hands-on experience with IBM AIX (versions 7.1/7.2/7.3)
• Experience with enterprise storage (SAN, NFS, GPFS) and virtualization (PowerVM)
• First relevant work experience in LPAR/VIO management
• 3+ years of experience administering Linux (RHEL preferred) and strong scripting skills (Shell, Python, Ansible)
• Experience with ITIL methodologies 
• Fluency in English; fluency in German is a plus
• Willingness to travel (~5-10%)
• Ability to weight problems and set priorities, as well as strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Willingness to take responsibility and ability to work under pressure