UNIX Systems Administrator                           

Location:               NY- Midtown    

JOB SPECIFICATION

The person required must have strong technical skills in the technologies listed below. They will form part of a 6 member Unix SA Team consisting of 4 x UNIX SA’s, 1 x Hardware Engineer and 1 x Technical Manager.

This team is part of a Global Unix group with another 4 UNIX SA’s, 1 x Hardware Engineer and 1 x Global Technical Manager based in the UK.

The SA’s provide support to all UNIX based technology in the BGC/Cantor Fitzgerald Web businesses, Front Office, Back Office, Market Data and external clients.

The candidate will have a strong technical ability with SUN Solaris, Veritas Clustering & Volume Manager, Legato Networker, shell scripting and SAN technology, which is being standardised to EMC storage.

The candidate must be willing to work two shifts (early 7:00am – 3:00pm and late 10:30am – 6:30pm). We also provide weekend on-site cover using a rota system @ once per month (see points below). The core skills required are: -

·         Solaris 8/9/10 (SPARC and x64)

·         SAN connectivity in an EMC or HP environment

·         Veritas VCS & Volume Manager

·         Legato Networker

·         Good shell scripting

·         Well motivated individual – delivers projects

·         Solaris Zones

·         DNS

·         Good documentation skills

·         Jumpstart

·         Managing a highly-distributed global network of Servers

·         SSL certificates

·         Weblogic

·         Apache

·         J2EE

·         Cold Fusion

·         Tomcat

·         Solaris Security

·         NIS

·         Linux

·         M5000

·         Sun Fire v1280

·         X4100/4200/4600

·         V4800

·         V440

·         V480

·         V210

·         V240

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Personal attributes

·       A desire to learn new skills, excellent communication skills with ability to deal with all kinds of people including brokers, developers and Senior Executives

·       Able to work quickly and effectively under pressure

·       A good team player with flexible outlook and ‘can do’ attitude

Points to Note

·       The candidate will be expected to provide weekend on-call/site cover based on a rota within the team. This is balanced across the team approx 1 week in 4.