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Job Description

" This position is with a Major Trading Firm. We have been retained to assist in the recruiting process."

Responsibilities:

• Production support of  30 different trading applications
• System administration of over 1200 Linux (Redhat) and UNIX (Solaris) servers
• Managing FC/ iscsi SANs (NetApp & EMC) using Veritas and LVM
• Writing complex shell and Perl scripts
• Setup & managing Linux clusters for High Availability
• Support firm-wide Legato backup systems.
• Understanding & implementing security polices
• Establishing consistency of server configuration
• Benchmarking servers and storage systems    
• Administration of SNMP based monitoring system

Job Requirements

"This position is with a Major Trading Firm. We have been retained to assist in the recruiting process."

Target Candidate Qualifications:

·         5 plus years of experience in Linux and Solaris Operating Systems (emphasis on Linux)

·         Strong knowledge of client/server services like NIS, NFS, X …

·         Experience with large storage systems like NetApp, EMC, HP…

·         Shell and Perl scripting

·         Strong understanding of DNS

·         Strong understanding of TCP/IP + UDP

·         Experience in low latency/high performance environment

·         4 year degree or equivalent experience

·         Customer focused        

·         Understanding of Linux memory system

·         Ability to troubleshoot performance issues that may arise with developers

·         Middleware messaging troubleshooting experience (TIBCO/RV, Wombat, 29West, etc)

·         Understanding of storage principles in high performance environment (RAID, file systems, etc)

·         Experience with Oracle, Sybase, MySQL performance tuning/issues