| Job Description |
The incumbent will be part of a team that supports Foreign Exchange and Precious Metals trading applications.
Resolution and Prevention of Problems
- Presented with system level and application problems on mission critical systems requiring immediate resolution, thus ensuring systems are operational according to agreed upon service level agreements and that they have a high degree of integrity and reliability. Often, resolution determination requires interaction with service vendors. Considerable effort is placed into determining, developing and delivering procedures to protect production environment from unplanned outages.
Provide Technical Assistance to Users
- Establishes system scope and objectives. Develops practical manual or automated procedures to solve complex problems. Prepares detailed specifications for programs, analyses and revises existing system logic deficiencies, oversees all phases of the technical system design and will advice, check and direct systems programs onto the correct technical system design.
Systems Administration and New Projects
- Perform system administration tasks associated with environment of specialization for the development, UAT and production environments as well supporting production code implementation. Provide training on specific environment to Operations, Network and Development Departments as required. New projects could include applications such as central back up for applications and database application monitoring tools or high-speed restoration software.
Control Access, Ensure Security and Contingency Planning
- Ongoing customization and maintenance of system access facilities to ensure and enforce strict security of financial environment. Plan, implement and test contingency plans for various hardware and software environments. System Monitoring and Updates
- During the course of the year, applications are monitored and statistical information regarding resource usage is compiled. Recommendations are put forward to management for capacity planning and system upgrades where resource constraints are identified to ensure that a reliable production environment is maintained. User Group Involvement
- Participate in user groups to gain information on other user’s project successes and/or failures. Required to keep up to date with technological breakthroughs and trends in field of specialization.
- The incumbent must have an excellent working knowledge and technologies in Wall Street Application System and Sun Solaris and Weblogic,Websphere application.
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| Job Requirements |
Requires 6+ Years of Solaris; experiences with Strong experiences in Veritas;The incumbent must have an excellent working knowledge in the following operating systems and technologies: Sun Solaris, Sun hardware, NIS, DNS, LDAP, NFS, Weblogic,Websphere application server, Websphere MQ, Tomcat, Sun One Web server, Web proxy, Citrix on Unix and Veritas products (Volume Manager, File System, Netbackup, Clustering),monitoring tools, shell scripting, and Tidal Job Scheduler would be an asset.
- Working knowledge of the following databases is an asset: Oracle, Sybase.
- Working knowledge of LAN/WAN environments and protocols.
- Requires a minimum of 5 years job related experience and possesses analytical and proactive problem solving skills. Expert understanding in area of specialty.
- Ability to work with non-technical users.
Several years of experience working with in-house or vendor-based trading systems such as Wall Street or Murex is a preferred.
Working knowledge of Oracle.
- Requires a minimum of 5 years job related experience and possesses analytical and proactive problem solving skills. Expert understanding in area of specialty.
- The incumbent must be prepared to work early, late or night shifts.
- Must be able to work on site or remotely (over the phone) and must be available on a 7 x 24 x 365 basis for systems support/consultation.
- Pager and/or cellphone/RIM support at all times is a mandatory requirement.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written (English).
- Previous financial industry experience is an asset.
- A fair amount of paid overtime, including weekends and holidays, will be required due to high availability and small or no down-time requirements for the supported systems.
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