Systems Engineer Job Posting

Job Title:	Systems Engineer - Linux, Windows, Trading, Cisco
Company:	Client of TS America
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	$100K
Skills:	Linux, Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, clustering, Cisco
Date Posted:	Sep-11-09

Our client, a well established trading firm, is seeking a seasoned and enthusiastic Systems Engineer for their downtown NY office location. They offer excellent benefits, competitive salaries and a freindly corporate environment.

Overview of Role

As a member of our IT team you will install, deploy, upgrade and maintain servers to support our existing and new infrastructure both in Hosting and Corporate office environments. You will design and implement upgrades, develop infrastructure, manage and automate recurring tasks. You will be an escalation function for our support and NOC teams and you will share in our 24/7 on call responsibilities as well as weekend work load. Working in a demanding, fast passed environment, you will need exceptional technical expertise, initiative and strong interpersonal skills. The position is based in our corporate headquarters in NY and requires minor travel to our hosting sites.

Principal Responsibilities & Accountabilities
• Design, build, install and configure servers in our hosted environment
• Automate processes, build details plans for all hosted environment activities
• Respond to first level support and NOC escalation requests
• Work with clients and troubleshoot day-to-day issues
• Participate in the weekend maintenance tasks and be on call 24/7 for urgent matters
• Work with a parallel Application and DBA's team as well as Security officer
• Be able to function and priorities work load and meet time-lines
Knowledge & Requirements
It is the
• Excellent customer facing skills as well as strong verbal and written communication skills
• 6+ years experience with Red Hat Linux AS 4.x/5.x Administration, installation, products and troubleshooting
• 5+ years hands-on experience and excellent knowledge of servers hardware; HP Proliant servers, HP Blade servers, problem solving skills with server applications in both windows and Linux environments
• 3+ years experience with Windows 2003/2008 servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2003/2007 Servers management, design and implementation
• Level of expertise with LAN network administration, Cisco LAN switching, routing protocols (RIP, BGP)
• Experience with large organizations networks and server farms
• Good level of understanding of DNS, LDAP, FTP/sFTP, DHCP and backup software
• Clustering software: Red Hat Clusters, Linux-HA, Microsoft Clusters
• Apache web servers experience
• IBM Websphere MQ knowledge
• Project Management and Documentation capabilities
• NetApp storage devices (NAS/SAN) experience - an advantage
• Perl/VB scripting capabilities -- an advantage
• Checkpoint Firewall's knowledge -- an advantage

Location:	US-NY-New York City
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Stephen Hagans
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	shagans@ts-america.com