Description
A top financial firm in Jersey City, NJ is looking for a Sr. Linux Engineer to join their team.This person will be asked to work on engineering related efforts to enhance/support the firm's electronic trading business.
He or she will also work on Linux security related efforts, as well as optimize servers for low-latency performance in a high frequency trading environment.
This will be a 6+ month contract that the firm will be looking to turn full time - please do not apply unless you are interested in a long term opportunity.
The rate will be based on experience, but the firm is looking for a Senior Consultant.
Would you please find the full job spec below and if you are interested, please respond to this advert with a copy of your most recent resume and / or call me at ).
Also, please do not hesitate to forward this information to any colleagues or friends who may be interested and have the desired skill set.
JOB SPEC:
Responsibilities:
-Bench mark new servers and storage including testing & validation of new hardware and software
-Work with products from vendors such as Fusion-io, Mellanox & Solarflare
-Provide Solutions/recommendations for various application groups
-Setup & support Linux and Oracle RAC clusters for High Availability
-Write complex Shell and Perl scripts
-Administration of SNMP based monitoring system
-Provide second level support to production environment of 2600+ Linux servers and in-house applications
Target Candidate Qualifications:
· 5 plus years of experience with Linux operating systems
· 2 plus years of experience engineering low-latency solutions in a trading environment
· 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 enterprise level Linux security & implementation
· Experience in server performance tuning (kernel, memory, network)
· 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, Solid State Disk, 10 Gb, Infiniband etc.)
· Knowledge of Oracle and Sybase performance tuning principles
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
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