UNIX Systems Engineer/Administrator Jersey CIty, NJ

Compensation: $110K - $140K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: KNRJA103

Primary SA for 9:00 to 6:00 PM M-F shift w/ some flexibility
7/24 (rotating shift) system administration of 2600+ growing Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) and 80+ shrinking Solaris server environment
Production support of 30+ application group trading systems
Build/Deploy servers based on standard build process
Setup & support Linux clusters for High Availability
Setup & support Oracle RAC clusters
Write complex Shell and Perl scripts
Benchmark server and storage systems
Testing & validation of various new hardware and software for the enterprise
Support FC/ iSCSI SANs (NetApp & Equallogic) using Veritas and LVM
Support firm-wide Legato backup systems
Administration of SNMP based monitoring system

Qualifications:
· 5 plus years of experience with Linux operating systems
· 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
· Strong understanding of IP protocol, multicast and other network concepts
· Strong understanding of DNS/DHCP/TFTP
· Strong understanding of enterprise level Linux security & implementation
· Experience in server performance tuning (kernel, memory, network)
· Experience in low latency/high performance environment in a financial setting or equivalent
· Experience with analyzing server core dumps
· 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 …
· Shell and Perl scripting and/or C or C++
· 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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