Location: New York

Overview

TradingScreen is currently seeking a UNIX/LINUX Infrastructure Engineer for our New York office. This is an exciting and challenging postition with exposure to a broad spectrum of technology. The Infrastructure group is responsible for managing and engineering the company's global solutions for servers and storage. The ideal candidate will have experience with the UNIX operating system and be able to perform basic network troubleshooting.

Excellent communication skills are required since the group interfaces with clients and all levels of the business up to and including the CEO. Additionally, the role requires excellent troubleshooting skills, the ability to work under pressure and the skillset to innovate whilst being sympathetic to change management processes that govern the management of production resources.

Since the group is global and provides services using a "follow the sun" model, the successful candidate must be an excellent team player able to both pass on and assume responsibility for task that require follow up activity across the time zones.

Requirements

• 2 years+ experience as System Administrator (preferably Solaris)
• UNIX/LINUX Administration (Solaris/Redhat)
• Knowledge of volume management. Understands operations and concepts associated with mirrors, stripes, concats and RAID principles in general
• Knowledge of filesystem concepts including new fs, grow fs, fsck and filesystem logging
• Thorough understanding of virtual memory, understands the concepts and operation of paging, swap devices, memory based filesystems and virtual addressing
• Experience with performance troubleshooting, ability to identify and isolate issues associated with CPU, I/O, or memory
• Experience with datacenter work (racking/cabling hardware)
• Familiarity with SAN (preferably Netapp)
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and can perform basic network troubleshooting
• Knowledge of support Java applications in production an advantage
• Understands connection TCP establishment and teardown
• Understands NAT

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. noting "Infraeng" in the subject line.