Location: Washington, DC Duration: 12 months with possible contract to hire Job Category: IT Industry: Healthcare Description: Background: This position is for a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer. Preferred: The work involves hands on technical support and systems engineering activities, testing, and validating systems, working closely with the Project Management Office, IT Service Delivery Team. This project includes infrastructure-related work that will leverage an SDLC appropriate for these types of projects (requirements analysis, design, installation, testing, and configuration of H/W and S/W components). Span of responsibility covers large, highly complex systems and projects. This role acts in the capacity of a Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) on small- to medium-size technology delivery programs and helps to ensure that recovery time objectives (RTO) are delivered on time, on budget and with quality. Job Requirements:Abilities/Skills: - 10+ years of IT experience working to support and enhance infrastructure and DR capabilities within an organization. - Good understanding of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform - Systems engineering and technical expertise in the planning, design, and implementation of high availability AIX open systems. - Responsible for the installation and maintenance of the operating system and application server configurations on the UNIX servers in the environments, including management of virtualization in the environment. - Assists Database Administrators with operating system configurations related to database subsystems. - Utilizes strong troubleshooting capabilities to diagnose and resolve problems or escalate to next level support, as necessary. - Monitors and manages storage, network, and security in the assigned environment in conjunction with vendor recommendations. - Ensures proper procedures are followed to introduce changes and fixes into the operating environment to ensure the lowest possible error rate. - Proactively monitors software maintenance levels compared to the vendor published software stack to ensure optimization and corrective fixes are applied. - Operational support in the planning, design, replication, and synchronization of secure, high-availability systems and applications. - Develops, updates, and maintains operations manuals, inventories, and written procedures relative to installing, maintaining, and using Operating Systems and subsystems software. - Demonstrated ability to manage infrastructure-related projects including installation of hardware and software solutions (for mainframe, distributed servers, storage, middleware, and networking) - Knowledge of and experience in managing DR environment/configuration projects and/or other data center operations projects. - Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and to apply it to business needs. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills. - Knowledge of technology product offerings and experience with hardware, software and software development methodologies to understand the impact of a new project. - Work cooperatively on an integrated team of Client staff to successfully address any associated risks and issues. - UNIX Shell Scripts - Ability to Conduct Technology and Capacity assessments - Manage and remediate security vulnerabilities Preferred: - Prior experience as Sr. Systems Engineer for multiple infrastructure projects that include both internal, external, and vendor resources. - Good understanding of data warehouses running in AIX/ DB2 environments with Cognos as the BI reporting tool. - Good understanding of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform - Understand Cloud based solutions and best practices - Working knowledge of network components (switches, routers, port configurations). - Experience in ensuring that appropriate project communication occurs on an on-going basis with internal and external stakeholders. - Understanding of or experience with Service Level Measurements with contractual obligations and their application to infrastructure projects If you fit these requirements - please reach out to us now! As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA prides itself on creating an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons regardless of race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, or disability.