Financial Solaris & Linux Admin (contract)

About Firm:

Major Financial Institution is offering the right potential candidate the chance to work within a fast-paced, multi-platform, high visibility investment environment. This opportunity is great for those that live within Northern New Jersey and are tired of the daily commute using public transportation to travel to New York City. This position is initially a 6 month contract, with the expectation that the right candidates term will be renewed.

 

  This Premier UNIX support group supports all of the investment firm's financial offering's. Great opportunity to learn about the business, as well as add Highly Visible Projects to ones resume.

 

Main function of the job:

This individual will be Business aligned with the NY team and focussed on providing deployment and project managing new implementations or upgrades within the NY and NJ infrastructure. He/She will work with Infrastructure Project Manager and various infrastructure groups to ensure consistent service delivery to the business.

He/She will work within the group on the day to day support of Bank wide standard UNIX platforms, and nominated as a primary for specific UNIX based application projects.

 

Main duties Responsibilities:

?  To provide UNIX support focus to application support teams ? Will include building, monitoring and capacity planning for growth

?  Provide project tracking and reporting to both global UNIX teams and customer.

?  Work with the global UNIX and Engineering team in defining, developing a supportable process for Linux within the bank

?  To assist with day to day, cross application UNIX platform support.

?  To provide weekend cover for upgrades / fixes / installs as part of a scheduled team rota.

 

Qualifications /Education: Hands on experience in supporting RedHat LINUX SUN Solaris trained Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster Server products.

 

Commercial/Technology Experience Required:

?  Linux support

?  Solaris O/S support.

?  Shell Scripting.

?  Performance analysis.

?  Capacity planning.

?  Veritas Cluster management.

 

To be considered for this position, Potential Candidate must be:

1.  Authorized to work within the US (unable to sponsor H1?s).

2.  Be extremely well spoken and be able to present to front office types within Trading Floors.

3.  Currently live a commutable distance within Northern NJ.

4.  Have "hands on" "Leadership" personality. (This position is offered for only those that are at the top 20% of their field)