[Hiring] Senior AIX Systems Administrator @First Citizens Bank

Role Description

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AIX Systems Administrator to join our Platform Computing Operations team supporting critical banking platforms. This role is responsible for the administration, maintenance, security, performance, and availability of IBM Power Systems and AIX environments that support mission-critical financial applications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive hands-on experience across all facets of AIX administration, IBM Power hardware management, virtualization technologies, disaster recovery, automation, and regulatory compliance requirements within highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services.

This position participates in an on-call rotation and must be available to provide 24x7 operational support for production incidents, maintenance events, and critical business initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Systems engineer and systems programmer OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Systems engineer and systems programmer
• 10+ years of enterprise-level AIX administration experience supporting mission-critical environments.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience supporting IBM Power Systems hardware platforms.
• Expert-level knowledge of:
  • IBM AIX 7.x
  • IBM Power Systems (Power9, Power10)
  • Hardware Management Console (HMC)
  • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
  • PowerVM Virtualization
  • Logical Partitioning (LPAR)
  • Network Installation Manager (NIM)
• Advanced experience with:
  • SAN storage and multipathing
  • TCP/IP networking, DNS, LDAP, SSH, and NTP
  • Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
  • Performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity management
• Strong Unix Shell Scripting expertise (ksh, bash, and sh) with the ability to develop, maintain, and troubleshoot complex automation scripts supporting enterprise operational processes, system administration, monitoring, reporting, and application support functions.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and automation workflows to support server provisioning, configuration management, patch deployment, compliance remediation, and operational standardization across AIX environments.
• Experience supporting systems within highly regulated industries, preferably banking or financial services.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements, including:
  • FFIEC
  • PCI-DSS
  • SOX
  • NIST Security Framework
  • CIS Benchmarks
• Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery configurations.
• Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with auditors, vendors, application teams, and senior leadership.

Requirements

• Exposure to mainframe, desktop, Windows and UNIX system support
• Exposure to Server Virtualization
• Exposure to Configuration Management and automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Mastery in Directory and Authentication services
• Understanding of data warehouse architecture principles
• Knowledge of BI or Enterprise Reporting Frameworks
• Exposure to Business Continuity Processes
• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, JavaScript, Python, SMP/E, Iebgenr, Iebcopy, etc.
• Understanding of data flow, network interfaces, and protocols such as systems network architecture ("SNA"), Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP"), Domain Name System ("DNS"), and NetBIOS Extended User Interface ("NetBEUI").
• Knowledge of relational database management system fundamentals and design principles, databases and applications tuning tools, and multi-platform programs such as DB2, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Ability to be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Benefits

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits .