Unix/Linux Migration Consultant

Job description

Project Name: The Data Center Colocation and Migration Project TASKS & DUTIES: - Focus Area: Migration of Solaris and AIX workloads to AIX 7.3, RHEL 9, and container platforms (OpenShift 4.12+) - Migrate all Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 Global and Non-Global Zones (both branded and native) to target platforms including AIX 7.2/7.3 LPARs, RHEL 7/8/9 systems, and containerized environments. The effort includes full hosting of the operating system environment, encompassing all filesystems, applications, startup configurations, service definitions, cron jobs, user accounts, and system-level integrations. Special consideration must be given to the technical complexity of transitioning from SPARC hardware and Solaris services to IBM Power10-based AIX platforms or container-native platforms. The consultant must handle translation of OS-level constructs and ensure seamless continuation of legacy workloads, while also accommodating modern security and performance standards. - Note: The most critical application, POS, is being migrated from Solaris 11 to AIX 7.3. This POS system currently operates in a clustered environment using Veritas SFRAC and will be platformed to an Oracle ASM-based 8-nod...