Unix Administrator

Company Description

Financial company specializing in equity derivatives clearing, providing central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 13 exchanges

Job Description

• Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Unix/Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical servers.
• Attend meetings as a team representative.

• Review and evaluate virtual and physical server performance and capacity.
• Use change management process.

• Act as a liaison for customer relations.
• Comply with all audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements

• Forecast system demands and recommends upgrades, expansions and reconfigurations.
• Perform computing environment build-outs, site setup, user training, hardware/software installation, maintenance and support and documentation of operating procedures and processes.

• Perform Unix/Linux administration including changes, deletes, disk space management, application installation, and backups.
• Support VMware environment including changes, adding/removing systems, and disk space management.

• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, takes appropriate corrective action and/or interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support, server recovery, and troubleshooting functions.
• Assist with development and testing of changes needed to maintain DR environment

• Stay in tune with new technologies.
• Support on call, weekend and off hours work as needed

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Good consultative, communication, analytical, and judgment skills.
• Ability to work effectively with clients, technical staff, consultants and vendors.

• Ability to work well under pressure and within deadlines
• Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical documentation

• Ability to communicate well and perform as part of a team located in multiple cities
• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, Unix shells and standard utilities, and common Unix/Linux security tools

• In depth system administration knowledge and skills for Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux
• System administration experience and knowledge of VMware and administration of virtual servers

• Grub, PXE boot, Kickstart
• Solaris patches, packages, Yum, rpms, Satellite server

• SVM, LVM, Boot from SAN, UFS/ZFS, filesystem configuration
• General working knowledge of NAS, SAN, and networking

Additional Information

Gen Gamposilao - Senior Technical Recruiter

Hi-Tech Solutions, Inc. (HTS)

2 Mid America Plaza Suite 630, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

Direct Phone: : 630-401-8793

https://ph.linkedin.com/in/maria-genesiel-gamposilao-48b882111