2nd Level Linux Engineer at Confidential Company

Location: Jersey City, NJ, US

Description

Our client - a leading broker-dealer is looking for 2nd Level Linux Engineer.

Location: JERSEY CITY, NJ (OCCASIONALLY PARSIPPANY, NJ)

Working Hours: SHIFTS

Principal Responsibilities & Accountabilities
• Respond to alarms from the monitoring tools, with the goal of restoration of service
• Carry out deployments for new servers
•Carry out system health checks periodically and following deployments and upgrades
• Analyze application logs to determine root cause of problems
• Perform trace analysis using TCPdump, Snoop and Ethereal
• Plan and Document CR (Change Requests), as required to implement Application and Server upgrades and changes
• Work with hardware and software vendors to obtain support to diagnose problems
• Participate in meetings with other groups (Engineering, Development and Test) to plan and document deployment approaches and Operational Requirements

Qualifications & Experience
• In depth knowledge of RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 including clustering
• Experience in hardware and software support, configuration and installation of Servers, Cisco network switches and routers. Server Hardware, Operating system installation, and network TCP/IP experience
• Knowledge and experience with installation, configuration of PCs, small servers (IBM x336, x3550, x3650 & x3950). Ability to work with Cisco routers and switches – will teach
•Experience with HP OpenVMS desirable
• Two or more years experience working on trading system environments preferred
•Four or more years experience with installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Servers, Cisco Network devices and trading system applications within a Datacenter environment
• Individual must be a self-starter, highly dependable and detail-oriented
• Excellent communications, a customer service orientation and timely updating of problem tickets assigned
• Work outside the normal hours can be expected on occasion and usually with very little notice; must be flexible to respond as needed
• Be accessible via company provided Blackberry/cell phone or other mode of contact at all times

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