Infrastructure AIX Specialist

IBM
IBM

Other Engineering

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Posted on Apr 7, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Systems Administrator specializing in UNIX Operating Systems AIX, you will utilize thorough applied technical knowledge of AIX Operating Systems' fundamental concepts and technologies to manage hardware and software components. Your expertise will enable you to perform various tasks that ensure seamless system operation. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Install and Implement AIX Systems: Perform installation, implementation, and customization of AIX Operating Systems, ensuring that all hardware and software components are properly configured and functioning as intended. • Operate and Recover AIX Systems: Manage the day-to-day operation of AIX systems, troubleshoot issues, and perform recovery procedures to minimize downtime and maintain optimal system performance. • Tune AIX System Performance: Analyze system performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement adjustments to optimize AIX system performance, ensuring efficient use of resources and high availability.

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Required technical and professional expertise

• AIX Operating Systems Knowledge: Experience with AIX Operating Systems' fundamental concepts and technologies, including hardware and software components, to manage and maintain seamless system operation. • Installation and Implementation Expertise: Experience in performing installation, implementation, and customization of AIX Operating Systems, ensuring proper configuration and functioning of all hardware and software components. • System Operation and Recovery Skills: Experience in managing day-to-day operation of AIX systems, troubleshooting issues, and performing recovery procedures to minimize downtime and maintain optimal system performance. • Performance Tuning Abilities: Experience in analyzing system performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing adjustments to optimize AIX system performance, ensuring efficient use of resources and high availability. • Technical Troubleshooting: Experience with technical troubleshooting and problem-solving in AIX Operating Systems environments.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced AIX Troubleshooting: Experience with in-depth technical troubleshooting and problem-solving in AIX Operating Systems environments, including analyzing complex system issues and developing effective solutions. • AIX System Optimization: Experience in optimizing AIX system performance, including analyzing system resource utilization, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing adjustments to improve efficiency and availability. • UNIX Scripting Knowledge: Exposure to UNIX scripting languages and tools, enabling automation of system administration tasks and customization of AIX system configurations.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

See more open positions at IBM