Junior Linux Admin Jersey City, NJ

Compensation: $80K - $10K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: KNRJA102

Primary SA for 7:00 to 4:00 PM M-F shift w/ some flexibility
7/24 system administration of 2000+ growing Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) and 135+ shrinking Solaris server environment
Production support of 30+ application group trading systems
Build/Deploy servers based on standard build process
Write complex Shell and Perl scripts
Administration of SNMP based monitoring system
Troubleshoot hardware/software related issues
Testing & validation of various new hardware and software for the enterprise

Target Candidate Qualifications:
· 2-3 plus years of experience with Linux and Solaris OS (emphasis on Linux)
· 4 year degree or equivalent experience
· Must have excellent communication skills and be customer focused
· Strong troubleshooting skills in a high pressure environment working with network, security and development teams
· Extensive knowledge of HP hardware a plus
· Good understanding of TCP/IP + UDP and network concepts
· Good understanding of DNS
· Experience with client/server services like NIS, NFS, X …
· Experience supporting, configuration and troubleshooting applications using middleware messaging such as TIBCO/RV
· Experience troubleshooting Java server applications
· Experience with large storage systems like NetApp, EMC, HP …
· Experience with supporting Linux clusters for High Availability
· Experience with supporting Oracle RAC clusters
· Shell and Perl scripting and/or C or C++
· Experience in low latency/high performance environment in a financial setting or equivalent
· Understanding of storage principles in high performance environment (RAID, file systems, etc)
· Knowledge of Oracle, Sybase and MySQL performance tuning principles

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