Saturday, July 25, 2009

Unix Systems Administrator in New York, NY

Saturday, July 25, 2009
Unix Systems Administrator Location: NY- Midtown Full Time Role JOB SPECIFICATION The person required must have strong technical skills in the technologies listed below. They will form part of a 7 person Unix SA Team consisting 4 x Unix SA's, 1 x Hardware Engineer and 1 x Technical Manager. This team is part of a Global Unix group with another 4 Unix SA's, 1 x Hardware Engineer and 1 x Global Technical Manager based in the UK. The SA's provide support to all Unix based technology in the Web businesses, Front Office, Back Office, Market Data and for external clients so a hugely varied role. The candidate will have a strong technical ability with SUN Solaris, Veritas Clustering & Volume Manager, Legato, Shell Scripting and SAN technology, which is being standardised to EMC storage. The candidate must be willing to work two shifts (early 7:00am - 3:00pm and late 10:30am - 6:30pm). We also provide weekend on-site cover using a rota system @ once per month (see points below). The core skills required are: - Mandatory Skills . Solaris 8/9/10 (SPARC and x64) . SAN connectivity in an EMC or HP environment . Veritas VCS & Volume Manager . Good Shell Scripting . Well motivated individual - delivers projects Additional Skills (as many as possible) . Solaris Zones . Legato Networker . DNS . Good documentation skills . Jumpstart . Managing a highly-distributed global network of Servers . SSL certificates . Weblogic . Apache . J2EE . Cold Fusion . Tomcat . Solaris Security . NIS . Linux Enterprise Sun Servers . M5000 . Sun Fire v1280 . X4100/4200/4600 . V4800 . V440 . V480 . V210 . V240 PERSON SPECIFICATION Personal attributes . A desire to learn new skills, excellent communication skills with ability to deal with all kinds of people including brokers, developers and Senior Executives . Able to work quickly and effectively under pressure . A good team player with flexible outlook and 'can do' attitude Points to Note . The candidate will be expected to provide weekend on-call/site cover based on a rotational within the team. This is balanced across the team approximately 1 week in 4. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here