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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security System Administrator
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2007-01-15
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
(UNIX / Permanent / Sydney CBD)
CLIENT:
The client has developed and is operating a real-time market surveillance
service for stockbroking firms (primarily used by internal compliance officers)
that automatically identifies suspicious trading patterns.
The product was introduced into the ASX a few years ago and commands a majority
share in terms of trading volume and has been rolled out for equity markets in
London, Toronto, Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
This said, the client is still a small company with some of the favourable
small company approach with 22 staff in Sydney CBD and representatives in
Toronto and London. Revenue growth has been rapid following the initial single
round of funding. The client have solid relationships with private, public and
academic institutions.
The client is looking to grow its business with the current product base as
well as developing products for other market functions (currently a product for
surveillance of derivatives trading is underway).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, deployment and maintenance of mission critical network and systems
infrastructure used to support the provision of the ASP service. The supported
systems infrastructure is physically located remotely, in a few locations
around the globe.
- Day to day operations of in-house developed software used to deliver the ASP
service.
- Identification of opportunities for improving the maintainability of the
service, and liaising with the software development team to get them
implemented.
- Design, deployment and maintenance of network and systems infrastructure used
to support the software development team.
The supported infrastructure services customers across the Asia Pacific, Middle
East, North America and Europe. Therefore, this position may include
rotational on-call support, working extended hours, holidays and varied hours.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of acting as a vendor
liaison and working closely with upper management.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills. In particular, you should be
comfortable dealing with previously unknown issues.
- Ability to work independently, as well as with other members of an existing
operations team.
- Ability to prioritise jobs according to the nature of the task.
- Ability to design solutions with the bigger picture in mind, and not just the
immediate job at hand.
- Ability to write scripts in an administrative language (Perl and shell).
Experience with Java and C++ would be a bonus.
- Strong understanding of UNIX/Linux systems.
DESIRABLE BACKGROUND:
- At least five years administering large scale UNIX systems.
- Sound experience in operational IT solutions, preferably in environments that
are highly security sensitive.
- Good working knowledge of networking, particularly Cisco equipment.
- Good working knowledge of enterprise backup and storage solutions. Previous
experience in working with large volumes of data would be particularly
well-regarded.
- Experience with as many of the following as possible: web servers, Java web
application servers, LDAP directory services, server load balancing,
clustering, distributed systems, systems monitoring tools, change control
processes, remote administration tools, open source software in general,
performance tuning CPU and I/O intensive software applications.
Remuneration is to be negotiated and would be dependant on experience, approach
and suitability (expected to be between AUD90-130k).
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
(UNIX / Permanent / Sydney CBD)
CLIENT:
The client has developed and is operating a real-time market surveillance
service for stockbroking firms (primarily used by internal compliance officers)
that automatically identifies suspicious trading patterns.
The product was introduced into the ASX a few years ago and commands a majority
share in terms of trading volume and has been rolled out for equity markets in
London, Toronto, Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
This said, the client is still a small company with some of the favourable
small company approach with 22 staff in Sydney CBD and representatives in
Toronto and London. Revenue growth has been rapid following the initial single
round of funding. The client have solid relationships with private, public and
academic institutions.
The client is looking to grow its business with the current product base as
well as developing products for other market functions (currently a product for
surveillance of derivatives trading is underway).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, deployment and maintenance of mission critical network and systems
infrastructure used to support the provision of the ASP service. The supported
systems infrastructure is physically located remotely, in a few locations
around the globe.
- Day to day operations of in-house developed software used to deliver the ASP
service.
- Identification of opportunities for improving the maintainability of the
service, and liaising with the software development team to get them
implemented.
- Design, deployment and maintenance of network and systems infrastructure used
to support the software development team.
The supported infrastructure services customers across the Asia Pacific, Middle
East, North America and Europe. Therefore, this position may include
rotational on-call support, working extended hours, holidays and varied hours.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of acting as a vendor
liaison and working closely with upper management.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills. In particular, you should be
comfortable dealing with previously unknown issues.
- Ability to work independently, as well as with other members of an existing
operations team.
- Ability to prioritise jobs according to the nature of the task.
- Ability to design solutions with the bigger picture in mind, and not just the
immediate job at hand.
- Ability to write scripts in an administrative language (Perl and shell).
Experience with Java and C++ would be a bonus.
- Strong understanding of UNIX/Linux systems.
DESIRABLE BACKGROUND:
- At least five years administering large scale UNIX systems.
- Sound experience in operational IT solutions, preferably in environments that
are highly security sensitive.
- Good working knowledge of networking, particularly Cisco equipment.
- Good working knowledge of enterprise backup and storage solutions. Previous
experience in working with large volumes of data would be particularly
well-regarded.
- Experience with as many of the following as possible: web servers, Java web
application servers, LDAP directory services, server load balancing,
clustering, distributed systems, systems monitoring tools, change control
processes, remote administration tools, open source software in general,
performance tuning CPU and I/O intensive software applications.
Remuneration is to be negotiated and would be dependant on experience, approach
and suitability (expected to be between AUD90-130k).
CONTACT
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CONTACT:
Gareth Glover on 04 1117 0768.
Ian G
Manager
technologistau@yahoo.com
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