Description
A top financial firm is looking for a Unix/Linux System Admin to join the office in Jersey City, NJ. This position will begin as a 12+ month contract, that will be extended or turn full time. Please see more details below.Position: Unix System Admin
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Contract Duration: 12+ months
Pay Rate: Daily w2
Financial Firm
Position Responsibilities
- Provide primary support of all RedHat Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris servers supported through New York
- Proactively monitor all UNIX systems utilizing firm's standard tools
- Maintain complete inventory and documentation of deployed systems
- Liaise with application developers to gather requirements, design and deploy standard systems which clearly differentiate between Production, DR, Test and Development
- Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development team and Equity business to make corrections and mitigate risks
- Ensure that all systems are backed up according to the business requirements and notify the data owners when there are failures
Position Requirements
- Expert knowledge of RedHat Enterprise 5.x, 6.x, and AIX 6.x and understanding of Sun Solaris 10
- Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (VIOS and AIX LPARs)
- Solid knowledge of Linux kernel internals, some experience building customized kernels and customized RPM packages
- Experience with RedHat satellite servers and kickstart functionality.
- Expert Knowledge of UNIX kernel and network subsystem tuning and optimization
- Strong knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools such as CA Unicenter, sar, iostat, vmstat, etc.
- Strong programming skills with Perl, awk, sed, Shell script (Bourne, C, Korn)
To find out more about Huxley Associates please visit www.huxley.com