My first experience, Unix – 2009

Specializing in data as an AIX system administrator in 2009 was an exciting and demanding role, offering exposure to a wide array of tasks that relied on data management and data manipulation. If you had the pleasure of working in such a team back in the day, you would’ve spent most of your time maintaining and optimizing the Unix-based AIX system, configuring servers, managing system security, and keeping an eye on the system’s performance metrics. Remember – DevOps was nowhere at that time.

Here are some of the core responsibilities that filled most of our working time:

• System installation and configuration: As an AIX administrator, one of your main responsibilities was to install and configure the AIX operating system on IBM server hardware. Ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of these systems was critical.
• Data management: You were responsible for managing and safeguarding the organization’...