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Associate, Senior Linux Systems Administrator - New York City/ White Plains
Role Summary
Senior Linux Systems Administrator - We are a fast growing financial services company seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our global systems administration and operational support team in our White Plains or NYC offices.
The primary responsibilities for this position include; providing production support to Markit’s critical Linux/UNIX systems via on-call pager rotation, provides Linux/UNIX project engineering, architects new Linux/UNIX solutions as required by the business, product, or technology teams.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Manage 100+ Intel/Red Hat Linux servers running Red Hat AS/ES and/or Debian
- Working and coordinating with a global systems administration and operational support team, including a UK-based counterpart, and leveraging multiple time zones to provide extended support hours and highest level of service possible.
- Assist in architecting infrastructure for new products, including building system specifications to match business requirements.
- Configuring and troubleshooting application servers, web servers, mail services and other UNIX/Linux services relevant to Markit’s products and services.
- Maintaining a broad knowledge of operating systems and hardware and making recommendations on improving administration, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery of current systems.
- Documenting systems design, configuration, and administration items for the purposes of educating new hires and to provide better and consistent global support.
- Monitoring system logs and status and responding to business-impacting critical alerts, both in and out of office hours.
- Providing nights and weekends on-call support for critical business functions
- Enforcing change management controls on production and QA systems.
- Coordinating with development teams for releases of in-house and third party software.
Business Competencies
- Significant work experience as a Senior Red Hat Linux Systems Administrator and some hands-on experience with Red Had Linux Clustering are required. .
- Experience with Redhat Satellite server and RPM packaging. .
- Advanced knowledge in supporting HP DL and BL series hardware. .
- Advanced knowledge of installation, configuration, and management of Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and WebLogic. .
- Familiarity with Sybase or Oracle running on Sun/Solaris or HP/Linux. .
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix security best practices. .
- Knowledge of web application security, including common vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate attacks. .
- Proficient UNIX scripting capabilities of one of the following; perl, Korn, or Bash shells. .
Personal Competencies
- Must be motivated and be able to learn new skills quickly.
- Ability to effectively communicate issues and resolutions to all levels of the organization, both verbally and in written documentation
The Contact
Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.na@markit.com citing " Senior Linux Systems Administrator " in the subject line.