LINUX Systems Engineer Job Posting



Job Title: Systems Engineer - LINUX
Company: Client of TS America
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: $100K
Skills: linux, NOC, Windows, Perl, Cisco
Date Posted: Oct-01-09

Our client, a large trading firm, is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer (Linux) for their NYC office location. They offer excellent benefits, competitive salaries and a very welcoming & down to earth team.

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
Contact Phone:
Contact Email: shagans@ts-america.com




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