Senior Unix Systems Administrator (Chicago) Call me Asap if you are interested or know someone that is we do referral fees. This is a top tier firm Thanks Sheryl

Senior Unix Systems Administrator (Chicago)

Position requires Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; Understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, and file system concepts; Ability to use performance analysis to tune systems; Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; Understanding principles of routing, client/server programming, and design of consistent network-wide file system layouts; Strong understanding of clustered UNIX environments for mission-critical production work; Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, project plans, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customer or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management; Ability to solve problems quickly and completely; Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them; Knowledge of Trading Systems, Market Data Services, or finance background; Experience with EMC Symmetrix storage systems; Experience with Veritas Foundation Suite of products; Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, a shell). Pluses: Experience with Legato Networker, Tibco Rendezvous, Solaris Jumpstart, cfengine, DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS; Design and implementation of a disaster recovery facility for Unix systems. Bachelors Degree or equivalent required. Responsibilities include Designing/implementing complex local and wide-area networks of machines (This includes the mission-critical clustered Unix environment.); Managing a large site of development, quality assurance (QA), and production machines; Working under general direction from senior management; Establishing/recommending policies on system use and services; Some responsibility for purchase justification.

Unix staff is on-call for 3rd level support to repair production problems 7 x 24 on a rotating basis. A pager and cell phone will be provided by the company. PC can be provided for off hour VPN support.

Senior Unix Systems Administrator (Chicago) Call me Asap if you are interested or know someone that is we do referral fees. This is a top tier firm Thanks Sheryl

Senior Unix Systems Administrator (Chicago)

Position requires Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; Understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, and file system concepts; Ability to use performance analysis to tune systems; Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; Understanding principles of routing, client/server programming, and design of consistent network-wide file system layouts; Strong understanding of clustered UNIX environments for mission-critical production work; Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, project plans, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customer or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management; Ability to solve problems quickly and completely; Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them; Knowledge of Trading Systems, Market Data Services, or finance background; Experience with EMC Symmetrix storage systems; Experience with Veritas Foundation Suite of products; Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, a shell). Pluses: Experience with Legato Networker, Tibco Rendezvous, Solaris Jumpstart, cfengine, DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS; Design and implementation of a disaster recovery facility for Unix systems. Bachelors Degree or equivalent required. Responsibilities include Designing/implementing complex local and wide-area networks of machines (This includes the mission-critical clustered Unix environment.); Managing a large site of development, quality assurance (QA), and production machines; Working under general direction from senior management; Establishing/recommending policies on system use and services; Some responsibility for purchase justification.

Unix staff is on-call for 3rd level support to repair production problems 7 x 24 on a rotating basis. A pager and cell phone will be provided by the company. PC can be provided for off hour VPN support.

Please call Sheryl at 212-972-1144