Job Description:

Fox News, the number one rated cable news network for six years running, is building a team of IT and Broadcast professionals to support our new digital media platform. This server based system will revolutionize our news production workflow, totally changing the way we acquire, ingest, edit, play and archive video content for Fox News and Fox Business cable and new media properties. As part of this team you will be exposed to all aspects of the news gathering and digital media process. The ideal candidate will have worked in a 24/7 production support environment, is comfortable working with end users, can multitask and brings a positive attitude with them to work each day.

Job overview:

The AIX Administrator is responsible for managing, monitoring and supporting the FNC Digital Newsroom infrastructure which involves but is not limited to: IBM AIX servers, Linux based servers, and all other windows based systems.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Installation, maintenance and administrator of AIX

• Work with application development teams integrating application code through various environments of the development lifecycle.

• Work with operations group to establish and improve processes and procedures related to the UNIX infrastructure

• Manages the deployment of appropriate security patches, hot fixes, and software updates

• Monitors performance and tunes the servers for best performance

• Work with the application and project teams to formulate requirements.

• Provide on-call production support on a large 24×7 operation.

• Perform root cause analysis

• Manage performance/capacity

• Analyze Problems and situations

• Implement System HW/SW components

• Use System Analysis Tools

• Perform system performance tuning

• Implement and manage AIX system security

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; and a minimum of 5 year’s administration/ management in a large scale Unix environment, specifically IBM/AIX

• Experience with IBM’s LPAR, HACMP, NIM and logical volume manager technologies

• Experience working with the configuration and administration of AIX on a pSeriers server.

• Candidates must have experience in at least three of the following areas: AIX, Storage Area Networks, Shell scripting, logical partitioning.

• Experience with DB2 UDB on an AIX system is an asset

• Good understanding of AIX, storage architecture, and network

• Attention to detail

• UNIX scripting

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• A working knowledge of DB2 architecture and related utilities and AIX platform

• Candidate must have the ability to quickly diagnose and fix critical server problems and react to user problems and requests in a timely and professional manner.

Credentials and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, or a related degree, or equivalent education and work experience

• Experience in the broadcast industry desirable

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