System Administrator recruitment
- A multi-national buy-side firm
- Excellent opportunity to be part of a growing team
- Offering strong career opportunities within technology
Summary:
A multinational hedge fund company is looking for a System Administrator to join this rapidly growing team.
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for providing first and second tier support to Traders in local and remote offices in Asia and will be the point of contact with vendors. In addition, you will take responsibility for maintenance of the server room and ensure the short and long term stability of the IT infrastructure. Also, you will provide Disaster Recovery Planning and conduct DR tests as well as provide technology planning and IT cost analysis.
- Provide support to users in local and remote offices
- Server and network administration
- Act as internal escalation point for 3rd party systems and vendors’ point of contact
- Maintenance of server room (CRAC, UPS, etc) and DR infrastructure as well as conduct DR tests
- Ensure a stable and smooth running IT infrastructure in short and long terms
- Communicate and align projects and tasks with the changing business requirements including hardware and system procurement.
- Manage projects and maintenance schedules according to scheduled deadlines
- Technology planning and IT cost analysis
Requirements:
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure Support with at least 1 year in Trading / Finance environment
- Holder of a Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
- Expertise in deployment and maintenance of PC hardware and software
- Strong knowledge in Microsoft Windows XP/7 and Office 2003/2007/2010 suites
- Experience in Microsoft Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, Exchange 2007/2010, SQL server and IIS administration
- Experience in VMWare ESXi
- Experience in working with Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructure, planning, and testing
- Experience in Blackberry Enterprise Server installation and administration.
- Sound knowledge and experience in Networking – Network design, firewall rules, Cisco routers, layer 2 3 switches, TCP/IP, VPN, etc.
- Experience in managing vendors and service providers
- MCSE/MCITP and CCNA/CCNP an advantage
- Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory
- Excellent communication skills and well-organized
Interested candidates, please send your CV to Cedric Wong at cedric.wong@talent2.com quoting job reference number IT-CW-36553. For a more comprehensive list of current opportunities, please visit http://www.talent2.com