Our direct client, a global leader in the Investment Banking industry, is seeking a Senior Unix Systems Administrator. The team has production support, internal customer support and engineering responsibilities. The systems supported are business critical and the team maintains a high standard of uptime for external customers. To that end, the production environment is engineered to be highly available and multiply redundant.

Principal Responsibilities:
? Designs/implements complex local and wide-area networks of machines. This includes the mission-critical clustered Unix environment.
? Manages a large site of development, quality assurance (QA), and production machines.
? Works under general direction from senior management.
? Establishes/recommends policies on system use and services.
? Provides technical lead and/or supervises system administrators, system programmers, or others of equivalent seniority.
? Has some responsibility for purchase justification.

Experience/Skills:
Required:
? A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts, can use performance analysis to tune systems.
? A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, and design of consistent network-wide filesystem layouts. ? Strong understanding of clustered UNIX environments for mission-critical production work.
? Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, project plans, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customer or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management.
? Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
? Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them.
? Knowledge of Trading Systems, Market Data Services, or finance background
? Experience with EMC Symmetrix storage systems
? Experience with Veritas Foundation Suite of products
? Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, a shell)

Preferred:
? Experience with Legato Networker, Tibco Rendezvous, Solaris Jumpstart, cfengine, DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS
? Design and implementation of a disaster recovery facility for Unix systems




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