Unix Administrator

Financial company specializing in equity derivatives clearing, providing central counter party (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 13 exchanges

• Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Unix/Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical servers.
• Attend meetings as a team representative.
• Review and evaluate virtual and physical server performance and capacity.
• Act as a liaison for customer relations.
• Comply with all audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Forecast system demands and recommends upgrades, expansions and reconfigurations.
• Perform computing environment build-outs, site setup, user training, hardware/software installation, maintenance and support and documentation of operating procedures and processes.
• Perform Unix/Linux administration including changes, deletes, disk space management, application installation, and backups.
• Support VMware environment including changes, adding/removing systems, and disk space management.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, takes appropriate corrective action and/or interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support, server recovery, and troubleshooting functions.
• Assist with development and testing of changes needed to maintain DR environment.
• Stay in tune with new technologies.
• Support on call, weekend and off hours work as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Good consultative, communication, analytical, and judgment skills.
• Ability to work effectively with clients, technical staff, consultants and vendors.
• Ability to work well under pressure and within deadlines.
• Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical documentation.
• Ability to communicate well and perform as part of a team located in multiple cities.
• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, Unix shells and standard utilities, and common Unix/Linux security tools.
• In depth system administration knowledge and skills for Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux.
• System administration experience and knowledge of VMware and administration of virtual servers.
• Solaris patches, packages, Yum, rpms, Satellite server.
• SVM, LVM, Boot from SAN, UFS/ZFS, file system configuration.
• General working knowledge of NAS, SAN, and networking.

Gen Gamposilao - Senior Technical Recruiter
Hi-Tech Solutions, Inc. (HTS)
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