Job Responsibilities:
This role requires you to work on Linux systems and their associated services which provide the capability for IG to run their trading platform. Team responsibilities include daily troubleshooting and resolution of incidents, operational maintenance, and support for proactive and preventative analysis of Production and Development systems.
- Managing the Linux Infrastructure and web technologies
- Patching and upgrades of Redhat Linux OS and server firmware.
- General Redhat Linux system administration and networking.
iii. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution of OS and network stack incidents.
iv. Configurations management using puppet and version control.
v. Systems monitoring and availability.
vi. Web applications and application routing.
vii. Web-site infrastructure, content delivery, and security. - Day to day responsibilities will include: Completing service requests, responding to Incidents and Problems as they arise as well as providing day to day support and troubleshooting for Production and Development systems.
3. Create a run book of operational processes and follow a support matrix of products.
4. Ensuring Internal Handovers are completed, and all OS documentation is updated.
5. Troubleshoot system issues, plan for future capacity, and monitor systems performance.
6. Proactive monitoring of the Linux platform and ownership of these tools/dashboards.
7. Work with the delivery and engineering teams to develop the platform and technologies, striving to automate where possible.
8. Continuously improve the team, tools, and processes, support regular agile releases of applications and architectural improvements.
9. The role includes participating in a team Rota to provide out-of-hours support.
Person Specification:
Ability / Expertise
This position is suited to an engineer with at least 8 years of Redhat Linux / Centos Systems Administration experience that is looking to broaden their range of technologies and work using modern tools and techniques.
We are looking for someone with the right attitude: -
Eager to learn new technologies, tools, and techniques alongside applying their existing skills and judgment.
• Pragmatic approach to balancing different work priorities such as incidents, requests and
Page Break troubleshooting.
- Can do/Proactive in improving the environments around them.
• Sets the desired goal and the plans to achieve it.
• Proud of their achievements and keen to improve further.
This will be a busy role in a team so the successful candidate’s behaviors will need to strongly align with our values:
• Champion the client: customer service is a passion, cultivates trust, has clarity and communicates well, works with pace and momentum
• Lead the way: innovative and resilient, strong learning agility and curiosity
• Love what we do: Conscientiousness - has high self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, and organization, Flexible and adaptable
The successful candidate will be able to relate to the statements above and give examples that back them up. We believe that previous achievements signpost a good fit at IG.
Qualifications
Essential:
• At least 4 years’ Systems Administration experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux / Centos 5/6/7 managed through a Satellite infrastructure.
• Managed an estate of 1000+ hosts and performed general system administration, networking, backup, and restore monitoring and troubleshooting functions on that estate.
• 1 Years of experience with scripting languages (bash/Perl/Ruby) and automating tasks with Puppet and Redhat Satellite. Experience with custom RPM generation.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. You will have resolved complex systems issues in your last role and have a solid understanding of the tools needed to do so.
• Excellent Communication (Listening, speaking, the transmission of concepts with/without examples, etc).
• Calm under pressure and work to tight deadlines. You will have brought critical production systems back to life.
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What are we looking for?
• MCSA or MCSE certifications (Windows 2012 or higher)
• Must have strong communication skills and the ability to articulate task management, priorities, and issues.
• Technologies: Windows Server 2012/2016/2019, Active Directory design and management, Group Policy customization, WSUS / WDS / MDT design, deployment and operations, Hyper-V/VMWare virtualization, VDI / VDA, MS-Exchange Server, Certificate Authority, etc
• Proven expertise in powershell scripting and automation
• Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
• Capable of handling projects & good in customer communications
• Proactive self-starter, delivery focused, results orientated, team player, high professional standards and work ethic, strong-willed but flexible, and capable of making independent decisions
• Has a passion for innovation and working in a start-up environment with Good communication skills
What will you be doing!
• We are looking for game-changers who are confident to use their talent to make a difference.
• Proven work experience as a Windows System Administrator.
• Strict adherence to the use of the ticketing system for ALL incidents, changes and problems
• Ability to correlate incident trends into problem management and execute permanent fixes.
• Timely generation of customer facing incident reports
• Execute monthly patch management research, reports and implementation on system infrastructure.
• Provide lab simulation and interoperability and compatibility testing for new builds
• Analyse troubleshooting techniques output, diagnose problems remotely
• Must maintain the highest level of industry certification and knowledge.
• Ability to architect, build, maintain, and enhance our current managed service offerings and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Operational tasks
- Should be able to work in the US East Time zone idenpendtly
- Ensure the day-to-day functioning of team members operating hybrid is seamless.
- Ensure all team members are provided with all the necessary software, applications, assets, etc.
- Make co-working arrangements when the need arises
- Find the best options in the procurement of assets, tools, software, and services with regard to quality and cost.
- Take necessary steps to ensure all the operational tasks are undertaken with an eye on quality and value for money.
- IT Support
- Maintain IT software, tools, and applications repository.
- User management with regards to all the required software, tools, and applications generic and project-specific.
- Purchase, renewal, and cancellation of the software, tools, and applications.
- Ensure all the software, tools and applications have the least possible downtime.
- Logistics
- Take ownership of the logistical arrangements for company initiatives, programs or events.
- Vendor management
- Team Member Engagement
- Initiate, support, or coordinate events that play a role in team member engagement.
- Collaborate with other support teams, technology teams, and other stakeholders in their initiatives.
- Own the health insurance platform, its user management, team member support, renewal, and cost optimization by ensuring we are getting the best from the vendor.
- Other
- Own timely communications to all stakeholders about new initiatives, changes, downtimes, maintenance, etc.
- Achieve and maintain quality and efficiency in all tasks assigned.
- Align with the company's core values, respect, and adhere to all company guidelines.
- Operate with utmost integrity, behave ethically, and maintain respect for all.
- Event management
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or related field MBA-IT Systems/Operations, BCA with MBA.
- Good communication skills
- Any prior experience is good to have
- People-oriented and results-driven
- Working knowledge of Google Workspace, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.
- Working knowledge of system and data security tools.
- Should be a tech-savvy individual with the ability to learn new tools, software, and applications. Their uses, management, and basic troubleshooting.
- The ability to work as part of a team.
- Resourceful, self-motivated, and proactive.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent administrative and organizational skills.
What will you do?
- Oversees testing, deployment & maintenance of the Voice infrastructure.
- Performing a variety of tasks associated with user provisioning and call routing within the assigned platform
- Build loaders for internal systems ensuring tasks are completed accurately and in a timely manner
- Participate in meetings with clients and internal departments to understand the requirements of call routing
- Document and design call flow diagrams to ensure that all call variables have been accounted for in preparing a routing plan
- Support the clients solution by correcting any issues with call routing or provisioning during the initial implementation phase, constantly communicating status of any issues with client
- Complete testing to ensure that call flow is operating properly
- Monitors and ensures compliance to standards, policies, and procedures
What are we looking for?
- 0.6~2 year’s implementation experience in Asterisk PBX, IP Telephony, SIP.
- Able to thrive in a demanding and team-oriented environment
- Basic and strong knowledge of the Linux operating system.
- Knowledge of bash and perl shell scripting is an added advantage.
- RHCE Certification is an added advantage.
2. Can demonstrate an understanding of the
following concepts
● Common Linux Utilities
● Server/Application Architecture and
Security Hardening
● Virtualization
● Load Balancing
● Networking Concepts
3. Install, configure, manage and maintain all Linux
server-based applications
4. Strong Knowledge in redhat Clustering
5. Ensure all Linux based systems have the
appropriate patches installed, includes but is not
limited to, security, applications, and OS
6. Ensure all Linux based systems are running
current versions of antivirus software with
current virus definition files
7. Follow the Policies and procedures at the client
location
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Job Description -
OVM AND SERVER TASKS
- Good Understanding about virtualization technology like VMware/OracleVM and Linux administration including installation, configuration, and maintenance.
- Using ITIL best practice that can be incorporated into the operational running of the IT system to include Change/incident/problem/capacity planning.
- NFS file sharing and the Linux automounter.
- Perform installation and configuration of operating systems, applications and storage provisioning.
- Process improvements and makes recommendations in continuous quality improvements.
- Deliver Changes to the UNIX platform by leveraging the change control process communicating and seeking approvals from business owners.
- Working closely with internal development teams, database teams and implementation teams to deliver a new solution.
- Managing the 24*7 Production support.
- Troubleshooting problems related to Apache, Mail, DNS, FTP, MySQL, etc.
- Giving technical support and configure according to the requirement for the Development Team.
- Creation and execution of Shell (Bash) Script to make the work automate and to interact with databases.
- Solving login Problem, handling troubleshooting, installation and many more.
- Configure installation NIS/SAMBA/NFS setup with Active Directory integration and Provide support and Maintenance.