Linux Engineer - Global Delivery Center

Position Purpose

The principal objective of this position is to provide expert level support for the North American Region (NAR) UNIX environment. Provide 1st 2nd and 3rd line support ensuring full availability of the environment during production hours. The engineer will play an active role on all Safety & Trust initiatives as well as daytoday support activities administration and all projects associated with LINUX infrastructures and their associated applications. Expected to establish and maintain the organizations technical standards policies and procedures collect monitor and analyze systems performance data and troubleshoot LINUX servers when applicable.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

Provide 24/7/365 primary support of all RedHat Linux Centos Ubuntu & Solaris servers.

Proactively monitor all UNIX systems utilizing companys standard tools.

Maintain complete inventory and documentation of deployed systems.

Liaise with application developers to gather requirements design and deploy standard systems which clearly differentiate between Production DR Test and Development.

Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development team and Equity business to make corrections and mitigate risks.

Ensure that all systems are backed up according to the business requirements and notify the data owners when there are failures.

Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems; and meet all disaster recovery requirements specified by the business. Liaise with IT Production Engineers in troubleshooting complex crossplatform issues.

Maintain topnotch technical skills and business knowledge through proactive selflearning in addition to any formal instructorled training provided by the company.

Evaluate emerging system technologies and align their benefits with the business strategy of the company.

Contributing Responsibilities

Expert knowledge of RedHat Enterprise 6.x 7.x 8.x and solid footing in Centos and Ubuntu

Expert Knowledge of UNIX kernel and network subsystem tuning and optimization desirable.

Good knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools such as Geneos sar iostat vmstat etc.

Good programming skills with Perl Awk Sed Shell script (Bourne C Korn)

Solid understanding of TCP/IP and basic networking ability to use and understand output of tcpdump/snoop

Administration of Unix core services and applications such as NIS NFS Automount DNS DHCP CIFS SendMail Apache NTP PTP Sudo Jumpstart/Kickstart LDAP SSH Puppet Ansible

Handson experience with technologies (Veritas Infoscale Solaris Zones Ldoms VMWare KVM etc.)

Comfortable performing system upgrades installing layered products and analyzing and troubleshooting complex production systems.

Handson experience with various hardware including Dell and HP servers.

Good knowledge of EMC SAN storage arrays and NetAPP Network Appliances

Should be familiar with system administration regarding relational databases (Sybase Oracle) Middleware (WebSphere MQ) and market data distribution (Reuters RMDS) a plus.

Ability to interface with users at all levels of the organization and good enduser support skills.

Must be well organized responsible a good project manager have good verbal and written communication skills and able to multitask in dynamic trading environment.

Work as a member of a team adhere to corporate standards and change management processes and work to improve IT standards and policies.

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