Security Cleared 2nd & 3rd Line Support Engineer/Consultant (AIX/SAN Storage/UNIX) is urgently required by our Global IT Services Company for an initial 5 months rolling contract, to be based remotely from home, UK. (UK Only).

Responsibilities & Skills:

  • The successful applicant will be an experience AIX Engineer, who specialises in the support and implementation of AIX in enterprise environments
  • Experience of supporting AIX infrastructure migration projects
  • Excellent client facing experience
  • 2nd Line AIX support experience
  • Able to work as part of a small team, within a larger operations organisation, your role will be to deliver support services and change to AIX platforms hosting IT services critical to the end customer.
  • Resolution of incidents and problems
  • Delivering infrastructure change and projects
  • The presentation and removal of SAN storage
  • You can expect to attain skills in new technologies to ensure continued growth of technical capability, with opportunities to work with all our operational teams (inc. Windows, Solaris/Linux, Storage and Backup teams) to enhance that learning.
  • Significant knowledge of AIX infrastructure & virtualization.
  • Experience of supporting (2nd to 3rd Line) IBM/AIX Servers and platforms within large scale and infrastructures (+ Servers).
  • UNIX Scripting skills
  • Technical leadership during projects and live service events.
  • Have a proven problem solving ability.
  • Awareness of the ITIL Service Management framework and specifically incident and change management.
  • HMC and Power hardware
  • AIX version 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 software
  • PHA
  • VIO O/S
  • Firmware application (various versions)
  • EMC PowerPath

    • This is an urgent requirement; please apply ASAP if you would like to be considered. A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered

    The Company

    A leading global IT services organisation with 10, employees and annual revenue of nearly £2 billion in the UK alone. Projects delivered for private, Government, International and Defence customers are some of the largest and most technically innovative solutions found in the world. Their business is rapidly expanding to meet current and future commitments due to numerous exciting programmes currently being developed. These solutions will use the latest technology to resolve some of the most complex requirements for a challenging group of customers.

    Diversity
    Project People and our clients are fully committed to developing an inclusive workforce. Applications are always fully considered, irrespective of race, gender, faith, sexual orientation, ethnic origin or part time status.

    Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.