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Senior Information Technology Engineer

Job ID: 7153

Position Description:
Constantly rising volumes, around-the-clock trading, tighter regulation, emerging markets and fragmented liquidity are challenging the capital markets industry every day. Wherever you operate, you need to capture the best of these new business opportunities in order to maintain your competitive advantage. As your need for global and scalable solutions increases, you also require flexibility to integrate new types of instruments and to build cross-asset trading platforms.

SunGard’s Global Trading business provides multi-asset, front-to-back trading solutions, including order management, advanced execution, smart order routing, clearing and settlement, as well as market connectivity and information services. It delivers solutions for all listed asset classes from equities, fixed income, derivatives and commodities to FX.
Well rounded IT professional with experience in Unix and networking (Cisco a plus) to be in charge of production operations for a small “Software as a Service” unit.

Responsibilities include:

– Maintaining datacenter vendor relationships
– Implementing monitoring of hardware/network/software
– Maintenance of backup systems
– Upgrading systems based on monitoring trends
– Establishing and testing failover (monthly) between primary and secondary data centers
– Documentation of systems and networks

Position Requirements:
The ideal candidate would have at least 5 years of system and network administration experience with Linux and some kind of experience with Windows and windows virtualization. Specific experience in managing data centers is a plus. Most importantly, the candidate needs to be able to work and plan independently with minimal managerial interaction.***